Is it time to make burial arrangements for the latest would-be mega-development in Newton? It’s a fair question as a make-or-break vote looms on Northland Investment Corp.’s hotly contested plan to build a 23-acre, mixed-use oasis.
With Thanksgiving just days away, it’s time for our annual turkey shoot, where we let loose a healthy dose of verbal buckshot on everything from projects gone wrong to spineless pols and NIMBY neighbors.
The nation’s best-known democratic socialist is going way beyond just hollering about greedy luxury condo builders to interject himself into all sorts of housing disputes in cities across the country, typically on the side of the local NIMBY group.
You reap what you sow. And after driving up rents and prices to insane levels thanks to decades of blocking any and all new residential construction, NIMBY homeowners in Massachusetts and across the country have succeed in sparking an extreme counter-reaction.
