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Venture Partner at RAVen, data/ml for bio Board VP @AbundantHomesMA . Longer thoughts on data + ml x bio:

Boston, MA

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Jacob Oppenheim

9 months

Yesterday's vote in Milton should lay to rest the idea that we can create housing abundance through local gov't. Both RHNA in Cali and the more clearly mandated 3A ("MBTA Comm's") in MA have shown that localities will *not* zone for abundant housing. We need state preemption.

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Jacob Oppenheim

11 months

Why is housing expensive in Boston? Roxbury edition: Developer proposes 20 affordable homes for sale, gets approval, nice new building next to Nubian Sq 1-2 years later, City Parks "Tree Warden" decides that removing 5 trees is too high a cost, so 5 homes must go, BPDA concurs.

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Jacob Oppenheim

2 years

If the City of Boston was built out at the density of its iconic brownstone neighborhoods, it would have a population of somewhere between 1.5 and 2 million That seems like a good target. If we don't plan for abundance, rents will never fall. People will come, they deserve homes

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Jacob Oppenheim

5 years

This is the future that yimbys want

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5 years

"An investor-led building boom has almost doubled the size of the Sydney apartment rental market in two years, forcing landlords to drop rents more than $100 a week...casting a shadow over the thousands of units still under construction"

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🔥🔥🔥🔥 "...the city’s many NIMBY residents who dominate Boston’s neighborhood groups, civic associations, are responsible for...hundreds of thousands of missing units in the city, and the resulting lack of supply keeps relentlessly pushing up the costs of renting and buying."

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Jacob Oppenheim

7 months

Horrible example of why it should not be legal to drive vehicles where you cannot see directly out the front w/o express licensing + safety features. An F-150 is so tall you can't see a normally sized person walking directly in front, let alone a child.

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Intersection in Boston where 4-year-old was hit by pickup truck has been identified for safety...

The girl fatally struck in the Fort Point neighborhood on Sunday was killed in an area that the Wu administration has targeted for a pedestrian safety upgrade, according to city records.

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Jacob Oppenheim

3 years

This is what a technological revolution looks like: Boston has 32M sqft of life sciences space. 62M sqft is proposed or under construction. That's a tripling. Unless we build homes for everyone, we will turbocharge the housing crisis and benefit only landlords.

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Jacob Oppenheim

9 months

Turning your town into a nature preserve is not in fact good for the environment. Nor is it good for your fellow man's ability to thrive. (I'm looking at you: Weston, Lincoln, Carlisle, and Dover)

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Emissions per household in Greater Boston.

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Jacob Oppenheim

1 year

The media spent years both-sides-ing climate change, despite the empirical evidence all being on one side. It appears nothing ihas changed, now we're both-sides-ing the effects of housing supply: Hint: all studies show more homes, lower rents.

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Jacob Oppenheim

2 years

"Progressive" Jamaica Plain has decided that instead of homes next to the Orange Line, we should have parking lots: Project is down to 78 units (from 160) and 195 parking spots. 160 homes was already too few for a wealthy neighborhood in a hosing crisis

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Washington St. Project: 82 Fewer Units Being Discussed in Public Meeting on March 9 - Jamaica Plain...

A virtual public meeting to discuss the impacts of a proposed project at 3390 Washington St., that has drastically reduced its initial proposal for residential units, will be on March 9. The project...

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Jacob Oppenheim

11 months

All for five linden trees that could easily be replaced The system is rotten at all levels. We need simple, clear, rules and ministerial approvals, allowing abundant homes *everywhere*

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Jacob Oppenheim

9 months

Another day, another story of how 20% Inclusionary Zoning is essentially a ban on new housing.

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Harrison Finberg

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9 months

A little over 2 years ago, on January 18th 2022, Mayor Kenney signed the mandatory inclusionary zoning bill into law. This law requires in new multifamily buildings built by private developers, 20% of units to be affordable to people making 40% of area median income. It applies

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Jacob Oppenheim

11 months

Despite BPDA and ZBA *approval*, the developer is then told they need to *redesign for fewer homes* and go back through the asinine community review process by the BPDA! The Mayor's Office of Housing, supposedly concerned about affordability, is all in.

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Jacob Oppenheim

2 years

Our housing crisis in a nutshell: Tear down in Cambridge, a few blocks from Kendall Square, is shorter and less dense than neighboring buildings. There's even surface parking across the street. This kind of pastoralist zoning has no place in Cambridge.

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Jacob Oppenheim

9 months

America to families: drop dead First you ban new housing, then you make it hard to open biz + daycares for children, now you want to charge for the parks. Gerontocracy much?

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WBZ | CBS News Boston

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Arlington considers charging daycares, preschools to use public parks @MSullyNews

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Jacob Oppenheim

2 years

@brtrnkng @xenocryptsite @dubioushandle Massachusetts towns be like: NAME: A second tier roundhead or their hometown in England KNOWN FOR: House built in 1600, no homes built since 1976 1864-1948 ELECTION RESULT: 70R - 30D 1952-2020 ELECTION RESULT: 30R - 70D

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Jacob Oppenheim

2 years

This is an absolute scandal: pedestrian deaths rising while declining elsewhere in the developed world. We need to stop hemming, hawing, prevaricating, and "listening" and start implementing what we *know* we need *now*

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Pedestrians killed in crashes rose by 35 percent across Massachusetts last year, study finds - The...

In 2022, 101 people were killed by vehicles, up from 75 people the prior year, according to a study released Thursday by WalkBoston, a statewide advocacy organization.

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Jacob Oppenheim

4 years

Maybe putting heavier cars that can't see pedestrians easily all over the road was a bad idea

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Jacob Oppenheim

5 years

Incredible anecdote: Malaysia was squandering vast tracts of developable land by mandating very short blocks --- and almost no one knew why. Turns out it was about the length of fire hoses, which are much cheaper to replace than housing.

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Jacob Oppenheim

11 months

@JakeAnbinder Yet somehow in the hard sciences, even majors don't average a 3.8 🤔

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Jacob Oppenheim

1 year

Absolutely spot on from the Globe. I applaud their editorial board for calling out the transparent nonsense that is NIMBY's demanding a "community driven planning process," when that is exactly what the professional planners have done already.

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Editorial: The MBTA Communities law is putting Brookline’s liberal values to the test

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Jacob Oppenheim

9 months

Massachusetts isn't much different. We're the wealthiest and best educated state in the nation, but we won't build homes for anyone, so immigrants can't stay and thrive.

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9 months

New York State progressive housing policy: a homeless shelter stay for all, housing for none. Spend tremendous amounts of money to shelter and educate immigrants for a few months, and then ship them off to Texas and Florida once they get on their feet.

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Jacob Oppenheim

3 years

The North End restaurant saga is the housing crisis in a nutshell: -A dev proposes growth -An unrepresentative collection of loud old-timers complain -The authorities demand the developer pay off the gadflies else no dice This time, it's well known restaurants being shaken down

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Jacob Oppenheim

11 months

Accelerating around the stopped car in the roadway is barbarism no matter how many lanes you have to drive. There may be a very good reason someone is stopped! Like a pedestrian in the crosswalk!

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Adam Gaffin

11 months

SUV driver blames new road configuration, not impatience, for slamming into pedestrian in a crosswalk on Centre Street in West Roxbury

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Jacob Oppenheim

1 year

Hundreds of kids and parents with babies cross this intersection every hour, yet @BostonBTD @bostonpolice let cars continuously block the crosswalk forcing them out into traffic. This is absolutely unacceptable. What are we going to do about it (Marginal x Shawmut) @jfh ?

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Jacob Oppenheim

1 year

It's really nice how we can have bike lanes on Mass Ave that are turned into a continuous line of illegally parked car . @BostonBTD . @jfh . @KenzieBok . @MayorWu these lanes need permanent protection now . @BerkleeCollege stop endangering cyclists

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Jacob Oppenheim

3 years

It's time to clean house at the ZBA, which prizes feelings, NIMBYs, and "I did my own research" over the housing crisis and the needs of Boston.

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Adam Gaffin

3 years

Six-unit apartment building on Readville side street rejected as too big

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Jacob Oppenheim

4 years

Today's census population estimates show that Massachusetts lost ~1000 people last year. The wealthiest state with the best schools is *losing population* NIMBYs, well done. The rapid growth of the early '10s is over. Ask yourself: why are we closing up the drawbridge?

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Jacob Oppenheim

2 years

@danteramos ~almost all~ printed German before 1945 is in a font, Fraktur, that is nearly impossible to read by the untrained today.

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Jacob Oppenheim

1 year

"The tree later died" NIMBYism in a nutshell.

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1 year

This vacant lot in Brookline shows where affordable housing was NOT built to appease neighborhood opponents. Developer moved the building and shrank the number of units to save a 150-year-old tree that residents rallied to save. The tree later died. 1/4

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Jacob Oppenheim

1 year

This is....not how this works @GBH . Affordable housing requires subsidies --- it's not a developer's choice. The article is a mess, too, presenting long discredited theories of housing markets and absent any hard figures on how many homes are even being built. 1/2

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Jacob Oppenheim

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The hardest problem in bio today is picking the right targets. Our ability to modify biology has increased exponentially over the past decades. No longer is it a question of if we can hit a target, the key questions today are what should we hit and how 1/

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Jacob Oppenheim

7 months

I would simply make it fast, easy, and predictable to build dense, market rate housing that generates immense amounts of property tax revenue. Boston has ample land for 6, 10, 20, 50 story buildings and incredible housing demand. Don't raise taxes, broaden the base!

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7 months

Wu to seek permission to temporarily raise tax rates on office buildings should assessments show big decline in their values; says move would protect residents from potentially large tax increases

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Jacob Oppenheim

11 months

@lasagnadeathray Right! And the BPDA review process is designed to mitigate changes like this. That's when you find the creative solutions or design mitigations. Instead, we just screw people trying to build (affordable!) housing with land and financing and permitting costs evermore.

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Jacob Oppenheim

1 year

Hey @MassGovernor when are we legalizing camera enforcement? Let's fix traffic violence and make our streets safe (and our buses fast)

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Nick Benson

1 year

THE RESULTS ARE IN: First year of 24/7 speed cameras leads to declines in speeding, injuries, and fatalities during expanded hours: ⬇️ Speeding down average of 30% ⬇️ Fatalities down 25%

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Jacob Oppenheim

3 years

If we want to restore lands to Franklin Park, let's start with the land that serves the fewest number of Bostonians: the golf course

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3 years

‘The community deserves better’: Shattuck closure in Franklin Park stirs fight over green space vs. social services...

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Jacob Oppenheim

2 years

If it were the taxes, Massachusetts with average taxes for a US state and better services, would not be seeing out migration. It's the housing costs people.

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republicans love to complain that high taxes are the reason lots of young people are leaving places like New York and California and Massachusetts but the real reason is that rents are just too high. the cost of paying 2x in rent is way higher than a marginal tax increase

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Jacob Oppenheim

2 years

Let me be entirely clear: No one is being displaced by building on vacant industrial lots JP started gentrifying in the 1960s. Nothing will "gentrify" it further --- it's been rich for decades Continuing to freeze JP in amber is the best way to ensure it's affordable to no one

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Jacob Oppenheim

1 year

Why does everyone want to build small apartments in Boston? The avg household has 2.3 people and 70% of apts have two or more bedrooms. Singles, couples, and seniors can't find smaller places of their own and end up in larger homes with roommates. Let's build for them.

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Jacob Oppenheim

2 years

@mattyglesias The category includes vaccines and biologic drugs (antibodies, etc). Novartis, Roche, etc are headquartered there --- it's pharma.

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Jacob Oppenheim

11 months

It took long enough including a dangerous period of no lanes, but now there's protected bike lanes on Columbus Ave downtown. Thanks @BostonBTD

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Jacob Oppenheim

2 years

@TeeNineCheeBit I personally believe that people should have the right to move wherever they want and we should build the housing so that they can afford it. Cool to see you advocating internal passports, limited freedom of movement, etc. China might be a good fit for your politics

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Jacob Oppenheim

7 months

Better than making it free, pay for: 1) More service 2) More consistent headway management 3) Continuous bus lanes the entire route People want frequent, reliable service not free fares when surveyed.

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7 months

Cambridge City Council wants to work with Boston, MBTA to make the 1 bus free

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Jacob Oppenheim

1 year

Hundreds of lots up and down Dot Ave could be replaced easily by buildings like this if we allowed it.

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1 year

Board approves replacing closed Dot Ave. gas station with 14-unit residential building #Dorchester

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Jacob Oppenheim

2 years

Worcester is booming and that is great It is definitely not true, tho, that new buildings are raising rents for everyone. Every study says the opposite Worcester should take the opportunity to move beyond IZ, which has increased affordability nowhere

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Worcester is booming amid Boston’s housing affordability crisis. Now its home prices are soaring,...

As new residents flow into Worcester, housing prices there are shooting up, pinching the city's large population of working-class residents and prompting city officials to look for solutions.

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Jacob Oppenheim

2 years

Frankly, the State needs to put a stop to the City of Boston allowing the pastoralization of formerly dense areas next to transit. JP near Green St station is ground zero for this where bad faith NIMBY concerns have left us with vacant lots for decades.

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Jacob Oppenheim

1 year

I simply believe that cities should be able to grow, especially next to major squares and commercial arteries. Every place in this City had something interesting happen in it. If that were reason enough to block construction, we'd all be living in small, crowded wooden homes.

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1 year

Alliance ALERT: The history of one of the nation's most historic cities shouldn't be up for sale!

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Jacob Oppenheim

1 year

Franklin Park, a perfect full day, standing next to the Shattuck. People from all walks of life in Boston enjoying the park. No signs of disorder or uncleanliness. Two words for the people who claim it's a disaster already here: lying, NIMBY There's room for all of us here

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Jacob Oppenheim

3 years

Boston politicos in theory: We want affordable, low carbon, transit oriented lifestyles and community centric development. Boston politicos in practice: No, you can't build apartments on top of your paint store next to the T. Extra affordability doesn't help either.

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Adam Gaffin

3 years

Board rejects apartment building near Ashmont T station for lack of parking, being too big for its lot, too tall for the neighborhood #dorchester

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Jacob Oppenheim

2 years

The MA leg needs to start acting like CA, passing multiple, incremental housing bills yearly. Housing Choice + MBTA Communities were a good start. Next steps should include: - ADUs by right - Mandatory statewide upzonings - Lot size reform We've got a bill for the first two!

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Steve Koczela

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The growth of housing as top issue has been something to behold. Way ahead of other issues in this @UMassPoll poll.

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Jacob Oppenheim

2 years

We need a builder's remedy in MA. Remarkable the progress you can make against decades of ingrained, bad faith, exclusionary NIMBYism with such a law.

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Emily Sawicki

2 years

So far 12 builder's remedy projects have been submitted in Santa Monica since the Housing Element fell out of compliance. These essentially get rubber stamp approval through the state (I'll have more info in my story tomorrow). One of them is 15 stories & 2,400 units.

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Jacob Oppenheim

8 months

@opinonhaver On the other hand, the Mormons are nearly all descended from New Englanders and the British populations that moved to New England so it's kind of perfect. Utah is just Massachusetts 100 years in the past

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Jacob Oppenheim

3 years

@ofsevit @berkie1 Baker got housing choice passed. Let's not forget that. He was stymied for years on it. Dislike him all you want for other reasons, but on housing he's shown up pretty much every other elected official in the state.

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Jacob Oppenheim

2 years

Everything about this. The idea that car centric suburbanism is the only way to have a family is toxic.

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Addison Del Mastro

2 years

I wrote about what it means to be "pro-family," and why I'm unconvinced that urban living is just a lifestyle perk for young/single/childless people who will supposedly grow out of it. This ended up a lot longer than I expected, so I hope you enjoy it!

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Jacob Oppenheim

2 years

Great job everyone, our planning system is letting local NIMBYs reduce the amount of affordable housing by 20% and add unnecessary parking. Shouldn't our electeds be focused on this rather than bankshot proposals that likely won't increase affordable housing construction?

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Adam Gaffin

2 years

In face of neighborhood opposition, group reduces number of apartments in proposed affordable buildings in Grove Hall, adds more parking #Roxbury

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Jacob Oppenheim

4 years

. @universalhub spotted a mother rabbit and leverets at the foot of the Broadway bridge in Southie.

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Jacob Oppenheim

1 year

If we want people to live in downtown Boston and diversify the usage mix, instead of tax subsidies for difficult office -> housing conversions, maybe we should just allow people to build. Much cheaper Chicago is getting 635 apts in a 800 ft tower on the lake. This could be us!

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Jacob Oppenheim

2 years

With 789 new homes permitted in April, Boston is at 1830 over the first four months of the year and on track for our best year yet (surpassing 2017) in addressing our housing crisis. Props to the @MayorWu administration --- keep it up --- this is remarkable progress.

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Jacob Oppenheim

1 year

Good. Make it by right. Let's also end this nonsense of not renting to students. Wouldn't it be great if you could build student housing here with even more units? But instead, self appointed "neighborhood leaders" would prefer to keep them in decrepit firetraps

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1 year

Another residential tower proposed for Allston's GAP

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Jacob Oppenheim

5 years

In sum: If you don't like developers, let them be. They'll build so much housing they'll not make a profit and we'll be stuck with an oversupply of housing....Quelle Horreur If you don't like landlords, you need to build: constraining developers will just make them wealthier.

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Jacob Oppenheim

3 years

This isn't an idle concern: the fruits of the internet boom in the Bay Area went to long time homeowners and landlords, because almost no housing was built. Tech booms should lead to economic gains for all and migration in by a diversity of classes, not just the educated.

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Jacob Oppenheim

2 years

We need the 2 million Bostonians mayor

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Daniel Trubman

2 years

America needs more pro-population growth mayors. The era of "managed decline" is over.

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Jacob Oppenheim

2 years

@JakeAnbinder It's incredible how people in giant cars routinely make life extremely dangerous for those with children.

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Jacob Oppenheim

2 years

Chelsea's implementation of a high IZ requirement has driven out development by making it unprofitable to build. The new buildings are getting built nearby in Revere and Everett. Both cities are benefiting from new homes and new tax revenues to fund services and affordability.

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James Sanna

2 years

In a new wrinkle to the debate over expanding a key state tool to finance housing, a who's-who of Chelsea officials say any expansion should come with refocusing the program away from solely market-rate (w/ up to 20% affordable) housing.

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Jacob Oppenheim

11 months

@ElKaboom1 The time to consider the trees was the original approval process by the bpda, not some secondary baroque tree process. Replacing 5 trees isnt going to have an effect on average temps in Rox either, which are driven by pavement and paved yards anyhow.

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Jacob Oppenheim

9 months

Great place for the Commonwealth to use its powers and build hundreds if not thousands of new homes in one of the wealthiest, and most exclusionary parts of MA, close to the T

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Celeste Katz Marston

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#BreakingNews via @LeConcordBridge : MCI-Concord, the Commonwealth's oldest running prison for men, to close in June: #mapoli

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Jacob Oppenheim

7 months

Cities and towns should ban them. Insurers should refuse to cover accidents by them. Normal height pickup trucks exist.

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Jacob Oppenheim

3 years

Last night, the BPDA approved 544 total units of housing with only 297 parking spots for a ratio of 54.5%. Meanwhile, the ZBA routinely rejects or delays projects for not enough parking. Why are we talking about eliminating the former instead of the latter?

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Jacob Oppenheim

3 years

w/ all due respect, the Seaport turned acres of parking + vacant lots into businesses, homes, novel stores and restaurants, and some of the region's best parks It's packed no matter the weather for for a reason We can do better next time but this is much better than status quo

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Jim Aloisi [email protected]

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The Seaport is the inevitable outcome of poor status quo driven planning. The status quo won’t solve it. Boston needs a leader who understands that “more of the same” won’t cut it.

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Jacob Oppenheim

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Details here:

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Jacob Oppenheim

2 years

If only there were a way for Northeastern to build more student housing....maybe on parking lots? next to transit? in city permitting jail? that doesn't exacerbate our hotel room shortage? Well, nevertheless...

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Tim Logan

2 years

Part of Boston's largest hotel could soon become a dorm, writes @bycathcarlock ...

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Jacob Oppenheim

2 years

NIMBYs gonna NIMBY: here, it's bad that people would live next to a public park because reasons and nevermind that all the homes would be affordable. Why do we give platforms to these losers?

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Adam Gaffin

2 years

Developer proposes 28-condo project next to Roslindale forest; residents say that's the wrong place

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Jacob Oppenheim

10 months

On Boston zoning reform: “There needs to be some objective criteria, not just loud opposition from wealthy homeowners” 🔥🔥🔥from @jessekb @AbundantHomesMA

Wu pushes plan to streamline Boston’s complex zoning - The Boston Globe

The Boston Planning and Development Agency is launching a plan to simplify zoning in hopes of easing the path to new housing construction.

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Jacob Oppenheim

2 years

@AlecStapp Did you realize DC is nearly as bad as Chicago? The focus on Chicago has really warped objectivity on crime trends.

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Jacob Oppenheim

5 years

@redditships Who else noticed that Dad is 7 years older than Mom and OP was born when he was 27 and she 20? It's a classic r/relationships after all!

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Jacob Oppenheim

5 years

..."cross-examination” is a convenient canard deployed so courts will continue to admit unreliable evidence, allowing the (scientifically illiterate) lawyers [to] argue to (scientifically illiterate) jurors about the weight that ought to be given to unscientific expert testimony.

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Radley Balko

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Here's part four of my questions with forensics reformers. I asked them if our adversarial justice system is hostile to the basic tenets of sound science.

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Jacob Oppenheim

2 years

We're at 4 illegally parked vehicles in one block of the bus lane on Washington (Kneeland to Essex). Numerous others on the previous blocks. What's the point of bus and bike lanes of you won't endirece them? @BostonBTD @BOS311 @transitmatters @universalhub

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Jacob Oppenheim

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Note, too, that the untolled 93 has the worst traffic and spreads fumes on miles of dense neighborhoods. Toll 93 like the Pike and then see how things look.

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Jacob Oppenheim

2 years

When are we getting this Boston?

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Jonathan Berk

2 years

Mandatory parking Minimums Eliminated After (10-1) Ann Arbor City Council Vote “This eliminates the minimum number of parking spaces that are required, and it's across all uses. It's an exciting trend we’re following with many cities across the US.”

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Jacob Oppenheim

9 months

@mattyglesias This is the closest I've seen to an explanation: Gangs in El Salvador were neither well funded, well connected, or particularly well armed. They were involved in local extortion not int'l drug trade. The military is anomalously effective in El Salvador.

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Opinion | The Drop in Crime in El Salvador Is Stunning, but It Has a Dark Side

For all of its success in lowering crime, the Bukele model comes at a stark cost. Copycats beware.

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Jacob Oppenheim

4 years

We've got to do more about the highways around the Public Garden.

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Ann Tousignant

4 years

#universalhub Pedestrian hit corner Boylston & Charles. Transported to hospital.

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Jacob Oppenheim

9 months

Remarkable how many MA towns + cities, when budgets are tight, jump to "build commercial property," which they can tax at high rates, despite having no theory of *why* any biz would move there. Maybe permit highly demanded housing and people will want to build biz in your town?

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Jacob Oppenheim

7 months

@Coca2Nasty It's amazing how many people think that a truck needs to be 5 ft off the ground to be useful. How dumb are you?

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Jacob Oppenheim

2 years

Meet the new ZBA: NIMBY like the old ZBA. Barraza should not have been reappointed if she was going to keep the same old NIMBY attitudes that created this housing crisis.

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Adam Gaffin

2 years

Four-story residential building rejected on stretch of Paris Street in East Boston with mostly three-story buildings

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Jacob Oppenheim

1 year

Great. Make buildings like this as of right on any main street in Boston

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Adam Gaffin

1 year

Cleveland Circle office building could be replaced by six-story apartment building

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Jacob Oppenheim

8 months

This took far too long, but it's great to see 1370 dorm beds coming to Ruggles and replacing a parking lot. This one frees up 500 beds in the Fens, creating new homes for non-student Bostonians. Win-win-win. Next time, the City needs to expedite dorms like this.

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The BPDA Board of Directors approved the 840 Columbus Avenue project in #Roxbury to build new student housing for Northeastern University

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Jacob Oppenheim

4 years

Spectacular shameless NIMBYism: "a private golf club with concerns about sunlight bouncing off the new buildings and burning the grass" Props to Korff and @mahahome for calling a spade a spade. Zero tolerance is the only answer for this kind of nihilism

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Riverside redevelopment runs into new hurdle: the Woodland golf course across the street - The...

This Riverside project is one of the largest Newton has ever seen.

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Jacob Oppenheim

2 years

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Jacob Oppenheim

3 years

@JakeAnbinder There's basically no way to create business quality docs in Google docs. It helps that Office online keeps improving.

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Jacob Oppenheim

3 years

Will the net-zero carbon requirement factor in that building outside of Boston will happen if we don't build here? Building on 128, 495, or in Arizona produces much more carbon than a tower downtown.

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Jon Chesto

3 years

An interesting side note from Kim Janey's waterfront planning announcement: Looks like she wants Boston to adopt some kind of a net-zero carbon requirement for new development. via @BostonGlobe

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Jacob Oppenheim

1 year

@opinonhaver according to OP being pro walking is "reactionary" and not associated with the "elite" they're all inventing a guy here

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Jacob Oppenheim

5 years

Housing Crisis? What housing crisis? There's so much wrong here: - the concerns about parking blocks from the subway - the idea that apartments are out of character in 1-3 family areas - statements about firetruck accessibility not made by professionals

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Board kills proposal for 14-unit residential building off Paul Gore

The Zoning Board of Appeal today rejected a proposal to replace three long abandoned garages on Rock Hill Road with a 14-unit residential building after Paul Gore Road residents complained it would...

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Jacob Oppenheim

2 years

Absolutely on the nose: providing terrible service gives you terrible ridership. The arrow of causation does not run the other way. It is utterly scandalous that the MBTA board would act in such a way.

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2 years

. @Boston_Rooney is right on the money. The MBTA Board's comments are the kind of "managed decline" that riders, businesses, and climate champions should fight tooth and nail.

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Jacob Oppenheim

3 years

@sam_d_1995 @jbouie It is utterly astounding how the Republicans have been taking an idea that clearly works when well regulated, charter schools, and use those results to turn it into a grift for themselves and supporters.

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Jacob Oppenheim

2 years

Funny, none of the towns that have set aside vast tracts as "preserves" seem to be good for the climate.

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Jonathan Berk

2 years

The Climate Impact of Your Neighborhood, Mapped "Households in denser neighborhoods close to city centers tend to be responsible for fewer planet-warming greenhouse gases, on average, than households in the rest of the country."

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Jacob Oppenheim

2 years

@MarketUrbanism Europe includes *checks notes* the world's second, third, and fourth largest agricultural exporters!

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Jacob Oppenheim

11 months

The ZBA is still a problem: We have a planning and development org in Boston, the BPDA. Yet here the ZBA is using arbitrary power to acquiesce to a NIMBY councilor and *demanding* an already approved project go back to the BPDA for increased affordability. (1/2)

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Adam Gaffin

11 months

Three residential buildings approved in East Boston

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Jacob Oppenheim

2 years

People need abundant, cheap, cleaner energy instead of scarce, expensive oil heat in New England. This means: - Speeding permitting + construction of power lines + renewables - Not fearmongering about effects of offshore wind like certain enviro orgs

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Highest Heating Costs in Years Strain Many in New England (Published 2023)

In a region where most homes rely on oil heat and cold weather can last through April, the burden of high heating bills has been especially heavy this winter.

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Jacob Oppenheim

8 months

the nebulous community benefit system is “problematic and verges on ethically questionable” “Squares + Streets” effort is a “modest but important step” toward smoothing out the system “We need to take the unofficial veto power of n'hood groups out of it”

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Mayor Wu wants to overhaul Boston’s rules for what can be built where. She’s stepping into a...

As the city revamps its zoning code, neighborhood groups and advocates are pushing back, posing a political risk for the mayor.

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Jacob Oppenheim

3 years

Love to see the Boston ZBA rejecting new triple deckers among triple deckers bc someone dares to try a new style. This is an outrageous abuse of the greenbelt overlay; their decision rests on the same classist reasoning behind exclusionary zoning.

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