It only applies to people who occupy their primary residence, so no.

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We already have the cheapest property taxes in the metro by a lot, so can kinda see the opponents side.

I don't understand the argument that "house rich" people with lower incomes need the help. Do home equity loans not exist?

Do you know if this includes landlords/those who rent their properties?

How do all these council-members think we'll believe them that this is only for this year, when they do this every single year, and there's no particular reason it couldn't happen this year? This is Huang's first year, and this would've been a perfect time to "change".

They could literally have said, at any time in the last few months since our new Manager got the job, "Hey, I'd like this money to go towards rent relief instead of tax relief, could you present an alternative that has that when you draft your proposal?" And then, they could vote no on this one knowing there's an alternative.

It’s a great program!

It sounds like they're upgrading signaling on the Red Line. My speculation is that the northbound signals are temporarily out of service for maintenance, so all trains are required to proceed with caution, usually 15 mph on American railways.

TDLR: $19 million in free cash and an additional $2.5 million from a reserve fund is going to be used to decrease property tax collection in 7-1 City Council vote. Opponents argue money could be used for more important things - universal pre-k, affordable housing, rent relief

lmao that's 100% an urban legend, another variation I heard from a Tufts student was because the foundation of widener library was so unstable that a subway train going too fast under mass ave would make the whole building shake. There's currently a much more severe slowdown than usual, but the normal slowdown is because the subway has to make a (relatively) sharp turn going between central and harvard. If you look at a map you'll see that the red line makes an almost 90 degree turn north to go towards porter square

Given what we learned from the orange line shutdown, I have to imagine it's a slow zone due to repairs that haven't been done

Bicycle lanes

I've heard Harvard pays the MBTA to slow down under their campus because they have sensitive experiments and collections that the subway rumbling could interfere with. Maybe some new experiment just fired up?

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That doesn’t explain why it’s slower than usual.

I've been wondering this too. And it's not the 11yo answer from the other comment: this is a more recent and noticeably slower delay that only happens in the northbound direction in recent weeks.

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