And then there were two... (Boston: renter, HOA, house)

[BostonBornMassMade]

Originally Posted by WestieWhitie

And she would have been our next mayor if our current unelected acting (up) mayor didn't decide it was her turn(tm) and her god-given right.

she was never gonna get the White and Asian vote over Wu, she just wasn't. She was too similar to Wu and Wu would've just took voters directly from her. Wu was also already city wide not from Mattapan.

[BostonBornMassMade]

Originally Posted by WestieWhitie

They might if

they wont

[BostonBornMassMade]

Originally Posted by Boston Shudra

Remember that a majority of people living in the cities that had rent control back in 1994 (i.e. Boston, Cambridge, and Brookline) voted to keep it. It was the rest of Massachusetts that voted to take the program away from the 3.

Another thing to remember is that (to my knowledge) San Francisco doesn't have rent control. So it doesn't make much sense to say that having it would lead the city to follow it's west coast peer in terms of affordability.

What I do wonder is whether Wu (or anyone else) would be able to reinstate rent control at all, when it sounds like it was removed at the state-level.

Correct 67% of Boston voters favored Rent Control. At time about 67% of Boston was renters.

[BostonBornMassMade]

Originally Posted by timberline742

They can be either.

Caucasian doesn't mean what most people here think it means. Chechnya is in the Caucassus, for example.

Chechens are very white https://www.google.com/search?q=chec...h=754&dpr=1.25

[WestieWhitie]

Originally Posted by BostonBornMassMade

Also Janey was already mayor. And 61% of Bostonians liked how she was doing.

Please show me where you pulled that figure out of. Without removing your pants, if possible.

[BostonBornMassMade]

Originally Posted by WestieWhitie

Please show me where you pulled that figure out of. Without removing your pants, if possible.

https://www.suffolk.edu/news-feature...al-race-9_7_21

"Citywide, Acting Mayor Janey has 61% overall job approval and 64% approval on the handling of the coronavirus. Her positions on masks and vaccinations are supported by over 80% of voters, even though that support has not directly translated into a larger share of first-choice votes. However, Janey leads all candidates among Black voters (46%), voters with some/partial college education or less (30%), and among those ages 65 or older (26%), an important city election base."

please go drag your knuckles somewhere.

[WestieWhitie]

Easy - make it cheaper for developers to build so even more affordable projects are profitable. Get rid of parking requirements, do away with "affordable unit" extortion, relax the zoning laws, allow smaller unit size and most importantly tell the NIMBY brigade to go shove it. Developers are driven solely by profit and will build in all price ranges as long as it's profitable, they are not going to leave any money on the table.

Also no need for towers everywhere, we would satisfy the demand if a small percentage of all the decrepit triple-deckers and single families you see all Boston were re-built as 10-15 unit buildings.

Originally Posted by id77

Of course it's profitable and that's why they did that. Nobody's doubting that for a hot second.

Is your proposed solution to hold a gun to developers' heads and make them develop in places like Hyde Park and Mattapan then? They built some new housing out at South Bay/Dorchester too -- hardly a glamorous part of town. Unless $3k/month for a 500 square foot studio is affordable though, it didn't do much.

Build more? Turn every last brownstone into mid and high rise towers? That kill demand to live here in the process. You'd have lots of mostly-empty towers.

So, again, I ask: what would your solution be? If you were the Head Honcho of Beantown, what would you do to create affordable housing in the next 10 years in Boston?

[WestieWhitie]

She is similar to Wu but without all the moronic free everything fairy tale baggage - she would have gotten plenty of white votes that ended up going to Wu instead because white voters knew she wasn't viable due to black voters being herded to our acting (up) mayor by the Stuffed Bra Farrakhanda Alliance. If it wasn't for that you would have had your black mayor. Not the BLACK POWER, EVERYONE ELSE KNEEL mayor you want, perhaps, but a black mayor nonetheless.

Originally Posted by BostonBornMassMade

she was never gonna get the White and Asian vote over Wu, she just wasn't. She was too similar to Wu and Wu would've just took voters directly from her. Wu was also already city wide not from Mattapan.

[msRB311]

It feels less genuine to me when people like George and De La Garza spent years of their lives hiding the fact that they weren't just white then won't stop talking about it as soon as it seems to be working to their advantage.

Same with Elizabeth Warren.

[timberline742]

Originally Posted by WestieWhitie

Easy - make it cheaper for developers to build so even more affordable projects are profitable. Get rid of parking requirements, do away with "affordable unit" extortion, relax the zoning laws, allow smaller unit size and most importantly tell the NIMBY brigade to go shove it. Developers are driven solely by profit and will build in all price ranges as long as it's profitable, they are not going to leave any money on the table.

Also no need for towers everywhere, we would satisfy the demand if a small percentage of all the decrepit triple-deckers and single families you see all Boston were re-built as 10-15 unit buildings.

Ah, so have government not listen to their constituents and people living in their communities and instead dictate centrally planned policies that they say are better for the greater good, all while creating even larger nest egg profits for the already incredibly rich.

The irony is dark.