As much as people like me might parrot talking points of organizations like PPS it is amazing to me that people are putting forward the idea that this makes any difference to the housing supply issues which affect low income people far more than luxury buyers. This is a building trades talking point, not reality. If you want to dent the housing crisis then you can do it with appropriate scale housing as easily as you can with expensive towers. Our real estate is not at a premium multiple that towers are needed.

I like towers and skyline too. I was a heavy proponent of the Westin condos and waterplace etc. But stop trying to justify this junky piece of crap with "we need housing". It's a straw man for this project and worse plays the idiotic game of taking a genuinely important issue and trivializing it to justify a bad project.

At least have the honesty to say "I work in the trades and just want the job" or "I like seeing steel rising no matter what it is" or "I actually never go to and/or hate Providence but think I know better than Providence residents what is good for them."