Make Boston Red Again

Confession: my parents taught me how to fix problems; Boston City Hall learned how to make them permanent. Restrict supply, add impact fees, hire a bureau, then invoice renters for sympathy. Want rents down? Legalize building and stop making scarcity bureaucratic.

Pew at 9, permit line at 11: Boston's official housing strategy is to make supply sacred and invoice the rest of us for sympathy... Want rents down? Legalize building, slash impact fees, stop inventing offices that exist to explain why nothing gets built.

Bible in my tote, marginal-cost model in my notes: Michelle Wu can love 'equity' and still choose policies that jack up prices. If the fix needs a new office, it's not charity... it's taxation by PR.

i pray in the morning and run marginal-cost models at night. michelle wu's solution to higher rent: nicer slides and new offices. housing isn't an ethics seminar... it's supply and demand. legalize building and stop invoicing renters for municipal moral theater.

after church i passed an allston walk-up with a U-Haul out front. city hall calls months of permits and new fees 'process' and sends a press release. translation: restrict supply, add costs, invoice renters. legalize duplexes and stop billing people for your bureaucracy.

sunday: church pew. monday: a woman packing a U-Haul because a permit took nine months and rent jumped. city hall posts a heart emoji and sends the bill. real compassion: legalize ADUs, slash impact fees, stop treating building like an archaeological dig.

I pray in the morning, run marginal-cost models at night, and still watch City Hall patent scarcity: restrict supply, raise rents, then hire staff to explain why you can't move. If your 'compassion' needs a consultant, it's a tax dressed in kindness.

prayer in the morning, marginal analysis at night. if your fix needs a 12-person task force and a consultant deck, it is a jobs program disguised as compassion. price freedom back into neighborhoods: fewer permits, more duplexes, less hall-monitor governance.

confession: my parents taught me how to fix problems; boston taught me how to make them permanent. i pray, study finance, and watch city hall turn housing into a permit scavenger hunt...then invoice renters for empathy. legalize duplexes. cut the fees. let people live.

confession: my parents taught me how to fix problems; boston taught me how to make them permanent. i pray, i study finance, and i watch city hall turn supply limits into new offices and higher rents. taxation is theft... mayor wu just wrote the invoice.

gymnast before class, budget notes after. If City Hall ran Dunkin they'd need a 12-person committee to approve an iced coffee... Zoning is class warfare in historic-stationery. Deregulate small builds and let supply do the work.

boston sells virtue and buys scarcity. city hall restricts housing, taxes the fallout, then hires staff to study “affordability” while renters pay. legalize duplexes and ADUs, slash permit waitlists, stop treating construction like a sacrament. that's real compassion.

After church I watched a mom load a U-Haul because permits took nine months and rent spiked. City Hall writes "equity" press releases and sends the bill. Real compassion: legalize duplexes, slash impact fees, stop taxing people for paperwork.

Mayor Wu opens another office while renters and riders eat the bill. Restrict supply, raise prices, then tax the fallout. Want real affordability? Legalize duplexes, slash permit times, cut impact fees. Stop building press releases, start building homes.

gymnast before class, budget notes after. summer flight-attendant training taught me checklists beat committees. mayor wu's answer is always a new office; mine is more houses. deregulate permitting, legalize small builds, and let supply do its job.

boarding a flight teaches you two fixes for chaos: discipline and a clear checklist. boston's fix is always a task force and a press release. riders, renters, taxpayers pay for the paperwork theater. deregulate small builds and cut the waiting lists.

Summer flight-attendant training taught me how chaos gets fixed with discipline and clear rules. Boston fixes housing chaos with meetings, consultants, and ribbon-cuttings. If you want cheaper rent, let people build basements and backyard units, not another PowerPoint parade.

confession: my parents taught me how to earn a life; boston taught me how to tax your patience. permits, zoning, and endless reviews made scarcity a policy... and renters, workers, and taxpayers pick up the tab. build more, regulate less.

confession: my tiger parents taught me earned freedom; boston taught me permits. i'm a BU full-ride who reads budgets for sport... legalize duplexes and ADUs, slash permit waitlists, and watch rents stop pretending to be inevitable.

Sunday hymn, Monday budget read: Boston sells virtue and buys scarcity. 'Equity' fees on small construction are just a regressive tax; allow duplexes and legal ADUs, slash permit waitlists... that's real compassion that lowers rent.