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xander marro's avatar

The organization that I work for provides low cost live/work housing for artists. We’ve been holding it down in Olneyville for 25 years. Our projected upcoming tax bill is 41% of gross rents. This idea that wildly unaffordable housing that’s adaptive reuse would pay 8% is infuriating.

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Greg Gerritt's avatar

The whole Idea of subsidizing high end real estate isstupid and simply makes lower income folks homelss. EVen the world bank condemns the idea of giving subsidies to the rich for real estate development.

That the Mayor has Rob Stoltzman advising him is a clear sign we are in big trouble. Stoltzman was pne of the big proponents of building a container port at Quonset, a move proposed by conmen that the people defeated in 2002. Stoltzman also had to pay back millions of dollars for his role in 38 Studios. His advice is trash and that Smiley takes his advice says that Smiley really is out to screw the people of the city.

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