Michelle Wu on Twitter: Housing costs in Boston reached crisis levels way before COVID. Rent stabilization can help prevent double-digit rent increases, work towards closing the racial wealth gap & keep Bostonians in Boston. #LifttheBanMA

First of all, you’re a jabroni.

Building 6-8 story housing units provides a hell of a lot more housing than what we’re doing right now in the Seaport. Mixed use hotel/retail/life science buildings provides almost zero net benefit to the local area from a housing perspective since new jobs actually increase the overall demand for rent.

I just said brick because it’s quicker to get approved if it fits the neighborhood context. Screw me for wanting high density that actually looks like Boston I guess? We should be building more Back Bay/South End style neighborhoods, not DTX.

Being pro development doesn’t mean abandoning the sense of architecture and community to just build build build. We did that in the 70s and look how nasty those buildings and neighborhood designs turned out.

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