I drive a sedan, half the time I think someone has their high beams on, they’re just a new truck or suv whose low beams are mounted at the level of my roofline

Edit: and yes, I hate it

+1 with off-street parking and an outlet = easy. Without off-street parking = hard

The MBTA ornaments from Ward Maps on Mass Ave

There is no trivia at the Druid since before Covid, I had the same experience as OP when I went to the Druid for trivia on a Wednesday night.

Comment OP, I'd suggest editing your comment ;)

Agreed. They’re charlatans trying to rip you off by advertising more loudly than the strictly-better community options

I'll offer the opposite opinion: MWRA water tasted terrible and I'm so glad it's gone. I'm happy at least some people enjoyed it, though :)

What. What definition of upper middle class expects to make significantly over $1million in a single year, ever? Let alone so much over so often that they find a 4% tax on the overage burdensome?

Wowwww lame. I haven't had this happen and I drive <= once per week, but I guess I've just gotten lucky. That sucks!

For winter I would go garage because of snow, but summer I would rather just get a friend / neighbor to move my car for street cleaning, and leave it on the street otherwise :)

r/hardwareswap as well, though I think most apple products are crossposted

I think there’s a good deal more than “some accommodation” for people with cars in this town, even without parking minimums :p

MVP right here ^

Keep it up, I’m expecting housing affordability within my lifetime ;p

I don't disagree that reforming property ownership would make it so that investors (of various sizes) can't take advantage of housing scarcity to earn obscene rents.

However, even doing that still doesn't solve the problem of housing supply-demand mismatch. When housing construction lags population growth for decades there is going to be scarcity no matter what - and that lag in construction is thanks to decades of local, state, and federal support for discriminatory zoning and inefficient property tax policies, fueled by racism and classism.

The landlords are just riding the wave which our governments and zoning boards have prepared for them by attempting to freeze our cities in 1965.

With a sub-5% vacancy rate, if prices fall by half overnight, everyone who currently can't afford a home just won't be able to find a home. The good news is that fixing the supply side lowers prices, takes away those massive rents, and along with them the incentive for rental conversions and speculative purchases.

Homeless people are not the only ones demanding housing. So are all the people who would like to live in Providence but can’t afford to, the people living in Providence with parents and roommates who would like to but can’t afford to move out, and families who would like to move into a bigger place, but can’t afford to upsize

The rental vacancy rate in RI overall in 2021 was 2.8%. That’s likely lower in Providence itself. A healthy rate is usually ~5%, below which rents tend to rise. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/RIRVAC

All of the classes above benefit from cheaper, more available housing. The way to make housing cheaper is to build more of it

>which is rent control.

Which is insufficient housing

I’m sure the fact that we’ve been building housing at a rate slower than the city’s rate of population growth for decades has nothing to do with it