This just seems like virtue signaling at this point. No one needs 25 storey towers, all it’s going to do is making living here more obnoxious. The Starbucks in Central recently closed because people kept ODing in the bathroom, and I'm sure adding more density of low income housing would do the same. These tall tower blocks just have the effect of making the city less personal and less livable...

Realistically they should just relax the zoning for all smaller buildings so things like triple-deckers could become 4-plexes, single family homes could add 1 or 2 units or storeys so that density is more evenly spread throughout the city. The zoning requirements on these smaller buildings are much more strict and it's ridiculous that they're giving big developers the ability to circumvent the zoning restrictions while anyone else who owns smaller property is still restricted.

Cambridge and Boston in general need to remain somewhere people want to live. Tower blocks don't create neighborhoods or neighbors, and they'll just concentrate poverty and problems. They'll continue to make the area more expensive, and the city will just end up with big, expensive eyesores that no one will maintain for 50 years so that in that at that time another developer can claim to solve these problems with an even bigger building...

This is similar to the idea that the best level of government is the one larger than the last one unable to solve your problems. Bigger just hides the problem for a little longer.