In 2019, the Boston Globe Spotlight Team set out to research death in Massachusetts, to determine the effect of wealth and race on how long people live and how and where they die.
New York state just ended broker's fees for renters! 🏘
The fees add an entire month's rent to the cost of just finding an apt
(which is already a median $2,300/month for a 1-bdrm in Cambridge)
We can end them in MA too with the Tenant Protection Act under consideration now
Success is killing San Francisco. Is Boston next? The city by the bay has unaffordable housing, impassable streets, and impossible commutes. The city on a hill can still plot a different course. https://t.co/koSA6DipJg
Here's population growth rates by state from 2010 to 2018. Texas has grown by 14% (!) which is a total of 3.6 million (!!) people in the last decade. Seriously -- that's bananas.
Also, poor Chicago. Sorry, no policy can change the weather : /