But how is streaming on multiple devices.... TMobile only goes up to 120

Same thing happened then all of a sudden the app said outage til 4am!

Trash human

i don't regularly blow lights and such, but you bet your ass i do it in front of cops to make exactly that point. they are there for decoration and are useless. it's not even brave because they are useless.

prime example is morning traffic on belmont at the high school. a cop sits in a cruiser at the bus stop facing the "wrong way" toward the intersection and flashes lights at people who get aggressive. what the fuck is that fucker going to do if i run that red and flip him off? nothing. it's theater for stupid people and i don't want to fund it.

i do the same at construction projects. I'll even toot the horn and wave at them. they just go back to texting or whatever.

I'm tired of paying for services not delivered. we don't need cops to sit around having a "presence" when all they need to do to get paid is exist.

I’d run my business (and it IS business) my way. You can run yours as you wish. And don’t forget the commercial landlords, it’s not $40 for them

“Extra handling “ To pay $40 extra a year?

Gtfo

Boo fucking hoo

Are there any planned construction projects ready to go once this funding is available?

Yeah it is, and the anti-landlorders ALWAYs utterly fail at explaining why landlords who don't raise the rent, maintain their properties etc, are also evil. It's this weird, insular, kneejerk tic they have.

TBH I was just going by what was in the info packet; I hadn't seen any info about it from any other sources, and I couldn't find the ballot measure on Ballotpedia, which is generally where I go to research this sort of thing before voting.

That does seem to be a common theme on Reddit 😀

A landlord cannot be a good person.

I guess you’re a good person 🤷‍♀️

Perhaps Just gives them a convenient excuse

Which means they'd have done it whether or not we passed the CPA, and this policy actually will have little effect on rent in the city outside of what landlords would have done anyway.

It's not really your fault; the misinformation campaigns ran strong on this one. Cheers to Yes on 5!

I mean this sincerely: what's the alternative? Your friend/kid/husband/roommate/mom borrows your car, injures a biker running a stoplight, and nobody is held responsible because no cop was on the scene?

I don't dispute there are technical issues that need to be ironed out with cameras. But it's worth looking at how those could be addressed rather than rejecting the concept. There are equity concerns at the heart of them, you're right. But there are other equity concerns about not doing anything that to me bear equal consideration - without real traffic enforcement, anybody who's not driving is a target for harm with no accountability to the drivers responsible. The status quo is not okay.

In general, I also think "if you own a car, you are responsible for what people do with it" isn't a terrible approach to making our streets safer. If we had cameras, there's no reason the laws couldn't be written to avoid the worst-case outcome you list there.Scaling the fines by income would be great starting place.

This is why everyone should be fully informed before voting.

Have you seen it yet?

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So people realize that their political decisions have an impact. I’m guessing a lot of people who voted yes, don’t own property ( some do I know). They listened to the rhetoric and said “screw it, I don’t own property, no impact to me, I’ll vote yes. “. That’s all. Same with question 1, “ I’m not a millionaire, I don’t care”.

Nope. Landlords and property owners have power.

if rent increases are disconnected from the CPA as you imply, then why mention them at all here?

I'm a owner-occupied landlord of a 3family, my CPA cost is about $83/year. I will not be raising rent for that little. That works out to less than $3.50/month. That's less than I pay in transaction fees for my tenants rent ach transfers.

I'm also a member of Mass Landlords, and most of the folks I've chatted with do not have plans to increase from this passing.

Well yes I would. And yes increasing taxes does lead to increased rents. Is it the only reason? No. But it’s a contributing factor.