dpm25 t1_j6jrqos wrote on January 30, 2023 at 8:49 PM

Reply to comment by mshelikoff in Maura Healey wants to solve the state’s housing crisis. Here’s step one. by _Hack_The_Planet_

Yimbys aren't talking about oil rigs and steel Mills. They are talking about housing.

mshelikoff t1_j6k1jr2 wrote on January 30, 2023 at 9:49 PM

I will likely agree with anyone who has obvious goals of housing justice and a rational, humane urbanism. A person with those goals might be for or against a particular housing development depending on the details and depending on the displacements of the people there now.

If you will permanently remove 5 working class long-term resident families with kids in the local public schools in order to create a tall building with 200 graduate students living in studios then I'll probably be against you. Call me a NIMBY. I won't care.

If you don't increase the rent of those 5 families much and find temporary housing for them while you build your tall building and welcome them back into your tall building when it's done and introduce them to their new neighbors then I'll probably be with you. Call me a YIMBY. I won't care.

dpm25 t1_j6k2295 wrote on January 30, 2023 at 9:53 PM

Yeah I prefer grad students sharing multi bedroom apts and homes, it's oh so much better for competing rents /s

The socialist wing of the left is so bat shit crazy on housing.

mshelikoff t1_j6k2neu wrote on January 30, 2023 at 9:56 PM

You can usually tell who is batshit crazy from their words alone. If person 1 compares A to B and person 2 pretends that person 1 was comparing A to C and then writes "/s", person 2 is batshit crazy.