Apparently, the bubble’s deflating, but that still doesn’t stop the Globe from calling marshy, strip-mall repository Seekonk, MA, a picturesque bedroom community.
Lots of discussion at Blue Mass Group on the subject of building more housing, after a Rappaport Institute report called for the drastic need of increased supply to improve the economy and stablize the housing market. It’s occured to me that if we get measures to increase housing supply in the state in any significant fashion, it will only happen because progressive and conservative political factions find common cause. Both the center and the machine-Democratic party are too invested in the status quo.
For my part, I’d like to see much more dense, multi-story development, but shudder to hear calls for lots more single family homes. Do we want a megalopolis from Boston to Springfield? Besides, every unit built in a dense environment takes demand pressure off of the single-family market somewhere.
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