“There are people like us in every neighborhood and every downtown. All of these projects dance on a knife’s edge. All of them do. If you made it slightly easier, you might trip someone over into saying, ‘I’m doing this,’ versus not doing it.”
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I love Boston ❤️
Office-to-residential conversions… before they were trendy.
Despite concerns it would be “too tall,” this former office building was converted into 10-apartments in 2020.
The ground floor now includes a local bank, beauty salon, and a new local ice cream shop.
📍Danvers, MA
Over the past decade, The City of Austin, Texas has permitted more housing in a typical year than the entire Commonwealth of Massachusetts. In 2022 alone, Austin approved 24,227 units, about 1.5× the number permitted across Massachusetts that year.
I hear ya! We need to do more to reward the good actors too. I know what a Herculean task it can be. Thank you!
Over the past decade, The City of Austin, Texas has permitted more housing in a typical year than the entire Commonwealth of Massachusetts. In 2022 alone, Austin approved 24,227 units, about 1.5× the number permitted across Massachusetts that year.
The SJC is hearing the unfunded mandate case now. The justices were not amused with these arguments… clearly didn’t buy it but we wait for the decision.
The new plans even more of a joke than that photo.
Real patriots ride the train.
those first 6pm sunset of the year vibes
Over the past decade, The City of Austin, Texas permitted more housing annually than the entire Commonwealth of Massachusetts multiple times, peaking at 24,227 units in 2022, about 1.4× Massachusetts.
“We did the math, got out of the way and the result is dramatic.”
@mattmahansj.bsky.social, Mayor of San Jose
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The fact that a 19-story, 200-unit building replacing a surface parking lot in the middle of Manhattan is even controversial is an indictment of how restrictive housing rules have become in America’s biggest cities.
Fighting it over “historic protection” claims is embarrassing.
"A new, state-sponsored study boosts their case, finding that certain single-staircase buildings, with appropriate fire safety measures, are no less safe. That applies for buildings up to 75 feet tall, generally about six above-ground stories."
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I’ve had people laugh saying 'A better Massachusetts is possible' sounds underwhelming.
But do you actually believe it? That fixing the T, solving the housing crisis, making childcare affordable is around the corner?
Or is believing that we can have a government that delivers genuinely radical.
"“No growth” is actually decline in slow motion. It just happens gradually enough that by the time everyone agrees it’s a problem, a generation of families has already left & a future is imperiled." www.remainplaces.com/post/we-zone...
PLEASE HELP US SHARE THIS: “We’ve let the lies be far too successful, and that’s significantly hurt our cities. No more.”
It’s our blunt NEW @usa.streetsblog.org op-ed sharing why we’ve created @urbantruth.bsky.social. SPOILER: We need to call out the lies and tell the truth much more persuasively!
Yea. I’ll say we won’t see much in the way of housing innovation in Massachusetts unless it can scale. We’ve seen businesses and whole industries pop up in the west coast after broad policy reforms. Need to see that here first.
“It’s upsetting that our progress is now being hindered by an institution [ @arnoldarboretum.bsky.social ] that declined the opportunity to take stewardship of the land and is now making unreasonable demands for its redevelopment.”
- Sister Mary Veronica Mcguff
www.bostonglobe.com/2026/03/06/o...
Consistently, in survey after survey, housing availability and affordability is THE number one issue facing Massachusetts voters.
A ‘status quo’ approach to housing from any elected official, of any political party, should be considered malpractice today.
Now that incentives for zoning liberalization are out, and build-to-rent single-family housing is effectively banned, I think the ROAD to Housing Act might do more harm than good.
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I think Hillel almost closed? They’re cutting grades.
‘No-growth’ suburbs are hollowing themselves out & harming Massachusetts’ future.
In Marblehead, public school enrollment has fallen from 3,144 students in 2016 to 2,389 today (-24%), while the share of residents 65+ has grown from 17.9% to 22.6%.
A new poll from @abundanthousingma.org & YouGov finds 58% of voters support legalizing starter homes on 5,000sf lots. Just 21% oppose it.
Legalizing smaller homes, instead of locking communities into 40,000sf+ mansion zoning, makes the American Dream more attainable in Massachusetts.
The 1973 oil crisis hit the Netherlands hard, car-free Sundays, fuel rationing, empty highways. But instead of reverting to the old normal, they rebuilt their cities for people: protected bike lanes, safer streets, less car dependence.
A crisis became a permanent transformation.
“It’s too hard to build in [Massachusetts]. There’s too much regulation. There’s too much red tape. And one of the things we want to do in the Senate is tackle this and make it easier to build." - State Senator Barry Feingold
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Getting to yes in housing is important for young professionals, for families, for working people, for our business environment, and for quality of life.
The cost to inaction is that people have to leave Virginia to prosper. We should not want that.
