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ik1nky t1_j6j1yfv wrote

Reply to comment by mshelikoff in Maura Healey wants to solve the state’s housing crisis. Here’s step one. by _Hack_The_Planet_

You seem to have a grudge against YIMBYs that you're making part of all of your comments. But you're continually misstating YIMBY beliefs. YIMBY is not "build anything, anywhere". Some YIMBYs believe that, while others do not. Look at how prevalent the idea of Japanese zoning is in the YIMBY world or missing middle zoning. None of the YIMBY organizations in MA(Abundant Housing MA, ABC, Somerville YIMBY, etc.) that I know of are pushing for build anything, anywhere.

> 2) is anti-YIMBY. “We don’t start from the premise that adding housing is a negative,” said Driscoll. “That doesn’t mean build anywhere, any how, any size.” If you're anti-YIMBY, be happy about that.

Kim Driscoll is famously a YIMBY.

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elizag19 t1_j6j1dmc wrote

Reply to comment by 9Z7EErh9Et0y0Yjt98A4 in South Station PSA by [deleted]

Trafficking happens much closer to home than I think most people realize, or want to accept. It’s likely this was just another south station crazy person. It’s also likely that this person wanted to try and abduct someone without much of a plan afterwards. It’s also possible that this person is interested in trafficking a young woman.

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BlaineTog t1_j6j0tip wrote

Reply to comment by Quirky_Butterfly_946 in Maura Healey wants to solve the state’s housing crisis. Here’s step one. by _Hack_The_Planet_

Demand currently outstrips supply. As long as that continues to be the case, the housing crisis cannot be solved.

That said, you're correct that this isn't the only change that needs to be made. If you increase supply without raising taxes on homes past your primary resistance, you just encourage rental companies and investment portfolios to gobble up the new units so they can control prices and keep people renting. Building more houses and apartment buildings is a necessary step, but it's one part of a system of related changes that we need.

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fakecrimesleep t1_j6j0j9u wrote

Reply to Where should I live to be near Boston and not break the bank? by gold_medal_in_sleep

Malden or Watertown if you still want to see friends that are in the Cambridge/somerville area. Medford used to be kind of viable but the western and southern part with more transit access have gotten overpriced. I’ve also known people who have gotten stupid lucky with arlington rentals off season but that’s harder the the other two rent wise

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mshelikoff t1_j6iz41j wrote

Reply to comment by willzyx01 in Maura Healey wants to solve the state’s housing crisis. Here’s step one. by _Hack_The_Planet_

In 2023, no rational person would have the idea that any developer should be permitted to build anything anywhere of any size at any price point. After local, national, and global inequality have increased for decades, no rational person would believe that local people must abandon local government control over their neighborhoods and surrender to the realization that multinational Real Estate Investment Trusts with anonymous foreign investors are the ones who should control the future of their community.

NIMBYs are selfish idiots. YIMBYs are dangerous idiots.

People with brain cells recognize that we live in a complex world where individual people will always want as much control over their lives as the systems in place will allow them to have. Some renters have opinions about shadows at 5:30 am. A fantasy-land where multi-millionaire NIMBY homeowners and multinational REITs are the only ones with power who participate in local government is a land where renters are one step away from being nothing but vermin to be controlled or exterminated.

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