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greenglasstree t1_jebx7kd wrote

Reply to comment by commentsOnPizza in A new report found that Mass. has the highest GDP per capita in the country and is among the states least dependent on federal dollars. by truthseeeker

The housing scarcity is intentional. If housing is scarce it keeps poor people away and that's exactly what some rich people want.

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woohooguy t1_jebyxln wrote

Rich people need poor people to dust their mansions and mind the little shit offspring they can’t be bothered to raise themselves, as they are too busy driving the middle class even lower.

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BasicDesignAdvice t1_jedfqh7 wrote

I remember reading that every wealthy town needs three not wealthy towns to support it.

That was fifteen years ago.

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charons-voyage t1_jeexdtm wrote

You clearly don’t have kids if you think people sending their kids to daycare “can’t be bothered to raise” them themselves lol. Both parents NEED to work in MA since everything is so fucking expensive. I wish we didn’t need daycare, but we do.

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woohooguy t1_jeg386y wrote

I do have kids, and your reading comprehension is terrible. Hopefully your kids will be better at it.

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charons-voyage t1_jeg9bcn wrote

? Reread what you wrote lol. Wtf are you on about with your statement that I already quoted?

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MonkeyFacedPup t1_jec724e wrote

Nah. For one, Mass. is super densely populated already. We can't just build out into open land like they can out west. And when we try to, people get upset about woods being torn down.

Secondly, there's a lot of zoning tyranny. You can only build single family homes in a lot of areas, which provides housing for far fewer people. And a lot of SFH owners wanna keep it that way for "the families" cause they don't want college kids and young professionals making noise in their neighborhoods.

Thirdly, where you can build apartment buildings or triple deckers, they build luxury apartment buildings because apparently there are still enough people to make those profitable.

There's no rich people scheming to keep poor people out of an entire state or city. Stuff like this is almost always caused by bureaucracy or NIMBY shit.

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youngjuju212 t1_jees7uo wrote

Exactly. They've tried to build affordable housing in many expensive Boston suburbs and the townspeople protest it every time.

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wgc123 t1_jec6aw5 wrote

Bullshit. Rich people bay want exclusive neighborhoods but they do also want neighboring towns to house their workers. Housing scarcity throughout the region is not something they desire

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