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Law professor | Property, land use, urban law & policy, law & religion, election law | Scholarship at http://ssrn.com/author=730171 & https://t.co/qs5Z62JpiK

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‘Something’s got to give’: Boston’s Mayor Michelle Wu says she supports rent control ballot measure - The Boston Globe Wu on Tuesday for the first time publicly backed a proposal that is moving toward the November ballot.

"[W]e need to see something happen." Here's an idea, @mayorwu.boston.gov, why not see some real zoning reform to increase supply happen? Might require expending political capital, but give it a try.

www.bostonglobe.com/2026/02/10/m...

13.02.2026 04:07 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Strikes me as correct.

10.02.2026 21:22 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Why Building Alone Won’t Solve the Housing Crisis

Does anyone claim this? Why do people who say this not get asked whose view they are referencing? “You can’t just build, build, build and think it’s going to work out for everybody in the end,” said Lelaine Bigelow. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/r...

06.02.2026 02:48 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
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Yale Today brings a similar energy.

04.02.2026 13:52 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Is there a place for the angsting of people who haven't gotten around to submitting yet? Asking for a colleague.

03.02.2026 23:04 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

“We had the 1975 Islanders down 3-0 against the Penguins after three games …And every time a new game was played, they just magically whittled away until the lead was lost…It looks on its face to be fraudulent. Can I prove that? No.”

03.02.2026 22:11 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

What's frustrating is it's a wonderful route with significant ridership and yet totally unreliable from the start at both ends.

03.02.2026 03:43 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

@mbta.com can you try to figure out a way to coordinate the 39 bus with Amtrak arrivals. It's 10.28 pm and an empty 39 drove off right after a train pulled in but before people could get on board. Seems like it would not be hard to wait a few minutes. Not like you otherwise stick to a schedule.

03.02.2026 03:33 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Clearly she's including non-human life forms. Microbes and such.

01.02.2026 23:13 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

They're hidden in a theater showing Melania. Just can't find anyone willing to go in and retrieve them.

30.01.2026 22:06 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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An Armada? Are we sending galleons? How many doubloons will this cost the American taxpayer?

30.01.2026 17:54 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I wish in a few years we can stop wasting breath on baseless claims of voter fraud. (Although I suppose I won't know if that was, in fact, automatically granted).

28.01.2026 04:00 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

No word yet on whether they've taken away his hair product.

27.01.2026 03:03 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Great news. And this is before even leaning how horrible the public transportation/parking situation is at Gillette.

27.01.2026 03:00 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

And Miller.

27.01.2026 02:57 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Wow, they put him in time out.

27.01.2026 02:54 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

He's got lots more time for social media now.

27.01.2026 02:53 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Bad day to be a gnome or a Noem.

27.01.2026 02:51 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

She should just go ahead and eat a pork roll while giving the interview and call it a day.

26.01.2026 03:50 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Narrator: Bessent was protesting the removal of caviar from the menu at the Yale Club.

25.01.2026 20:02 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Could Bessent look more smug? Is it even possible to look more smug? He gives Stephen Miller a run for his money.

25.01.2026 18:41 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I think most sentences that start with "Our country was founded on" end with historical inaccuracies.

24.01.2026 20:45 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

In the words of Armstrong: “[T]he Fifth Amendment’s guarantee . . . was designed to bar
Government from forcing some people alone to bear public bur-
dens which, in all fairness and justice, should be borne by the public as a whole.”

24.01.2026 18:20 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

A cursory engagement with the ample empirical literature would reveal this. Instead the Globe published a column that discussed the Abundance movement with a citation to a blog post summarizing a book review. If we want affordable units, which we should, we should all pay for them.

24.01.2026 18:20 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

Whether zoning regulations have a sufficient police power rationale is a different question from whether they necessitate compensation. And the fact that apartments are expensive in parts of Boston does not undermine the relevance of supply and demand. It reveals the lack of supply.

24.01.2026 18:20 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

A simplistic take on a complex legal question. It depends. But it should be subject to exactions analysis. And it can be differentiated from setback requirements, which do not appropriate anything.

24.01.2026 18:20 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0

Complete cowards. Dressed like they're in a war zone.

24.01.2026 18:02 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The area "Just outside the ground floor restrooms" was already occupied.

19.01.2026 21:20 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Is there a magazine that ranks "Hot Countries?" What's the source supporting this claim?

18.01.2026 23:14 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Embarrassing FIFA is a particularly remarkable accomplishment.

18.01.2026 23:13 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0