There's an invisible line in Maine, that when you cross it, the politicians names all become French. Levesque, Poliquin, LePage, etc. It's hard to unsee.
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There's an invisible line in Maine, that when you cross it, the politicians names all become French. Levesque, Poliquin, LePage, etc. It's hard to unsee.
Matt Mahan's platform is OK but the problem is I don't trust him personally on this stuff. San Jose has been out-built by San Diego and Sacramento, and even places like Santa Rosa, Santa Barbara, and Santa Cruz. Why doesn't his housing platform translate to results for San Jose?
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It is widely talked about in Boston that the mayor is pushing the council on this and trying to monkey around with the funds.
Wu's implicit policy is that the buses should be last resorts for the poor: free, slow, inconsistent.
What if it's the mayor?
It will also write programs answer questions. That way, you're doing something better than depending on the model embeddings of the document.
But this should be trivial for Claude Code or Cowork?
A diffusion model that couldn't generate all the details would be picking something like a median of the each subregion?
There's an old observation that putting a median filter over an image makes it look like a painting. One wonders if this is essentially the same phenomenon.
I'll take that too :)
All you're doing is convincing me that this is complicated, more investment and better streamlining of development would help, and this has literally nothing to do with what progressive mass is saying.
Which is my point, really, we need serious solutions
Yet there's immense amounts of regulation around the building of new power plants and distribution systems. That seems like something the state should tackle (and is kinda sorta doing). Further, if you want to keep utility bills low, you're going to need to subsidize that investment.
The counter argument in the QT is terrible tho. We both know that executive salaries at utilities are not why rates are going up and that Mass save is charged to utilities, making it harder to invest in more power and lower prices.
There's clearly a better argument here!
You tend to only see these mansion combinations in neighborhoods zoned/landmarked low-density. They thrive with R6 zoning and landmark districts – West Village, UES/UWS side streets, Boerum Hill. Not the UES/UWS avenues, Midtown, or DTBK. You can defeat mansionization through high-density zoning.
Remarkable how hard it is for Harvard to fire a notorious pervert who was always obviously funded by Epstein only.
The arboretum has blocked more projects, but the aquarium has blocked more units. NIMBYism is not the mandate for either, yet it consumes a shocking share of their energy and dollars.
Society needs remedies for those nonprofits that abuse public trust for peculiar interest.
Boston has for years enabled NIMBY nonprofits to block housing construction nearby, even as they point to no real harms and have a history of refusing to buy the land in question
www.bostonglobe.com/2026/02/25/b...
Now they're bankrupting nuns. This should be unacceptable in polite society
This is Western Governor's University
washingtonmonthly.com/2011/08/28/t...
Oregon's state senate just voted to ban unfunded inclusionary zoning, recognizing that it makes housing *less* affordable, not more affordable.
Space savers are legalized barbarism. Just end them citywide. It's fine without them in the South End.
These people are shortsighted, and wrong, and their ability to express these policy ideas is premised on the ability to displace the costs of their lifestyle preferences onto the public and (poorer) urban dwellers in particular. But there are a lot of them!
V. perceptive line in this:
"Many prefer the smaller, less crowded, slower-paced Providence of today, where you can find a parking space downtown on a weekday in front of one of the old 20th-century office buildings."
A fact of US life that there is a very large pro-urban decline constituency.
The MA housing crisis is a moral issue, but there is an underlying political crisis as well.
People move to cheaper places if they can’t afford sky-high housing costs.
“Blue” states are throwing away electoral power to “Red” states in congressional apportionment and the EC because of NIMBYism.
The 3am Wu reply! You touched a nerve. Chapeau.
And you're totally right
There's similar stuff in the Saharan Oasis cities eg Ghadames
You can get money for the MBTA or you can pay Cambridge a 25% tax on new home construction but you can’t do both
Wow – real asking rents in Jersey City are completely flat since 2017 www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/n... (🎁🔗)
In the topsy-turvy world of California housing policy, building six townhouses instead of a single McMansion will result in hundreds of thousands of "impact" fees that have nothing to do with impacts and "affordability" mandates that guarantee housing unaffordability.
Savannah is much more interesting, more chill, and better urban form.