180 of these units would be for people over 55, meaning they wouldn't be adding children to the school system while they would be adding tax revenue to expand school capacity.

Agree that information is definitely missing. But tacknosaddle isn’t entirely wrong. Over the years families that were associated with, or loosely connected to particular neighborhood gangs, moved out of Boston in favor of places like Everett, Malden, revere, Norwood, Randolph, stoughton, etc.

But they’d still frequently return to Boston neighborhoods for some visits with friends or family. So this person might not be directly involved in anything nefarious, but being in the wrong neighborhood when the ops come through could have these results.

I do wish they would all stop shooting each other over silly neighborhood allegiance over a feud that likely began before they were even out of diapers.

1/2 Price Mexican on Thursday nights was our staple in our college and post-college years.

180 of the 495 housing units in this proposed development would be over 55 units. Those people will be adding to the town's tax base without adding children to the school system.

Make all public transit cheaper. Make people feel stupid for driving into the city. Everyone benefits (less traffic, less pollution).

Hey Doc! I heard there’s a pill that will give me a boner!

So most of the museum?

So when there is a limited supply of housing, who do you think is able to pay more for that rough around the edges Allston apartment?

Some working class person, or a software engineer?

When those “luxury” units get built, affluent people flock to those, vacating less affluent spaces.

And those affluent people who come here from out of town, were coming here regardless.

So your choices are to build more housing, or watch prices continue to soar.

Taking my 7th grade class into the glass flower room every year takes years off my life.

honestly i dont think the city leadership cares. If this were back bay it wouldn't be a link to universal hub, it would be every news outlet and the mayor would give a statement.

There’s also the cost to build this, which won’t be cheap for the developer.

Everyone is always pissed at the greedy evil 1980s movie villain developer, but the reality is that they’re not necessarily making a killing (at least right away) on a new build $2500/month 1BR.

Don’t get me wrong, plenty of developers are greedy bastards. But that this sub thinks the market will magically produce “affordable” housing on its own is a joke - everyone building this new housing needs to get paid, or it’s not going to get built. That’s going to set some kind of floor on how low the rents / sale prices can realistically be on these new buildings, unless the government steps in to help reduce costs.

Assuming that 1BR is ~900sf, and a sf cost of ~$300, it’s about $270k to build. At $2500/month that’s ~ 9 years for the developer property manager to get their money back on the unit. Over a decade, then, from when they made their initial investment in the property pre-construction. They can reduce that $300/sf cost, of course, to pull those numbers down - my point is simply that this isn’t the magical money printing machine for the developers and property managers that everyone seems to think it is.

If it was there would be more multi-family housing being built, zoning and NIMBY problems or not. You find ways through those things if the money is right (look at all the lab space we’ve built).

Salem is massively overrated. PEM is good, and a few decent restaurants but that is about it.

Source: used to live there

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I agree with your suggestion to install congestion fees for commuters....AFTER the MBTA provides more station parking and service frequency. You cant punitively erase a behavior without a viable alternative already in place. The current lot capacity and service frequency doesn't offer that.

I'm almost certain it's real!

Here's the first link I found: https://www.bostonmagazine.com/arts-entertainment/2017/02/17/greenway-lights-texting/

It's in the north end

Since they put the gates in at North Station, the conductor always checks the ticket on my train. And even if he doesn't, you still need to activate the ticket to get through.

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i take the commuter rail because i have to but commuting from zone 1 and commuting to zone 1A is needlessly expensive. Scaling the zone 1 fare down to, say, $4.25 to mimic express buses would save a zone 1 commuter without a monthly pass about $100 a month (or probably about $50 if they scaled the pass down the same way). For a lot of T users $600-1200 a year in savings is substantial, not to mention if they also scaled down the rest of the zone fares. That would also make the commuter rail a much more attractive option compared to driving, particularly if you take the mass pike which has tolls.

They can be used within 30 days; that's hardly a short amount of time and it isn't based on calendar months like monthly passes are. Obviously it's not cost effective to buy them if you don't take the commuter rail at least 5 days a month, hence these being for people who commute a couple times a week. The 10 ride pack is just 10 individual tickets with no discount so I'm not sure how that's relevant (or why the MBTA even offers it). I'm not sure how you're calculating what's cost effective or not, but the flex passes are 10% cheaper than single tickets which makes it pretty easy to see how they're more cost effective. Salem and Swampscott are also in the same zone, hence their fares being the same.

If there are any consequences, they are all social. Some people have found out that it's fun to ignore these weak penalties and just do whatever they want. Simon Phoenix has been re-awakened in the world of Demolition man.

> Chicago is a hellhole of violence that has some of the strictest gun control laws in the country. why don’t you compare it to another city?

Chicago isn’t even in the top 10 US cites as far as murder rate goes and most of the cities “strictest gun control laws” were struck down by courts.

Top 5 are:

St Louis

Baltimore

Detroit

New Orleans

Baton Rouge

How strict are gun laws in Louisiana? Could the ease of access to guns possibly be the reason they have not one, but two cities in the top 5 murder rate in the country?

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I mean there are high rise residential buildings that are condos rather than apartments. It seems like people simply forget that it's possible to have a construction company that isn't also a management company.

There's a way to build density but actually give the occupants actual ownership. That's my problem with all the new developments. How is it going to help someone to buy a living space when they spend about the same, if not more to rent than a mortgage?

Equity from an owned unit is so fundamentally important for wealth building over the decades you live in a space. Sure people have space to live but are essentially kept at a huge financial disadvantage by living in apartments vs condos.