therealcmj t1_ja8fell wrote on February 27, 2023 at 4:49 PM

Reply to comment by Maxpowr9 in ‘A housing market for almost no one’: Rising prices and interest rates have made home buying feel impossible - The Boston Globe by uxd

There was a news piece a while back about boomers being upset that there were no smaller apartments and homes in their towns that they could down size into.

And I got to literally laugh out loud at them facing the consequences of their own actions and voting behavior. Before I was sad again about how fucked the housing market is for everyone.

vhalros t1_ja9dmj3 wrote on February 27, 2023 at 8:25 PM

I think it was this one (or some similar one): https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/07/29/metro/market-badly-out-kilter-many-older-residents-are-stuck-their-homes/

Yeah, the article kind of missed that smaller units were mostly illegal.

pancakeonmyhead t1_jad7yqq wrote on February 28, 2023 at 4:29 PM

I've heard multiple stories from people who bought a building in Somerville or Cambridge (this goes back to the '90s) and find that part of the building had illegally been converted into a mother-in-law apartment or that there was an illegal unit added into somewhere like a basement or an attic.

vhalros t1_jad8a7k wrote on February 28, 2023 at 4:31 PM

Yeah, the basement of my current home in Somerville definitely had an illegal apartment in it a some point. There are still remnants of tile from a bathroom.

pointycube t1_jaaqa12 wrote on February 28, 2023 at 1:57 AM

This is my mom. I've tried explaining it to her, she just gets mad. I've given up.

At the same time she's been bitching for months now about the two single-family homes going up across the street from her house "because it is too dense".

Boomers gonna boom.