Recent comments in /f/boston

foxinteal OP t1_j6ovmkh wrote

Thanks for all of the resources! I'm specifically looking for people who lived in the neighborhoods of where the fires took place. Bit of a long shot I know!

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General_Liu1937 t1_j6ouyzy wrote

We need an iron and brick wall to shield the bullets instead. And also it's odd how most prominently white neighborhoods don't have to face this. The poverty being in these poor neighborhoods and filled with black people. It's almost like we have a historical problem in this city that is being covered up by not speaking about it. Maybe the city should actually looked into this and do something more than "give thoughts and prayers". Man is dead already and we all know someone else is next. Considering these factors afflicting these neighborhoods - education, family planning, birth control, income stability, etc - it would be nice if the city looked into it.

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amos106 OP t1_j6ot3cz wrote

The fact that affordable housing is 70% of the Area's Median Income is likely due to survivor bias. If the market doesn't have enough housing supply then the prices will go up until they consume larger and larger portions of people's income. Eventually the people on the lower end of the income spectrum are forced out because the housing system is market based and the winners and losers are chosen according to who can afford rent. Inclusionary polices cannot solve a supply problem, and the market but its very design will leave low income (often synonymous with underprivileged and marginalized) people holding the bag.

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fuckitillmakeanother t1_j6osdzd wrote

Luxury housing isn't luxury because it's nice, it's just luxury because it's new. Places that currently are not considered luxury were considered luxury when they were new. Someday this new luxury housing will be considered old and cheap,but only if we keep building more.

No one is going to invest money into building housing and market it as 'subpar housing' or 'eh it's okay housing'.

The cost of those units has more to do with the lack of other housing in the area rather than any relation to the quality of the housing.

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