Yeah I don't know why folks are ignoring this. The housing complainers that CEOs worry about are 30-50 year olds with families who want to live in a suburban neighborhood with a yard and decent schools. A major problem is that there's no commuter rail that's truly convenient to Kendall. Housing prices on the line that runs through Porter are outrageously expensive basically until you get to Acton and beyond, and at that point the CR itself is expensive. You can maybe walk 20 - 30 min from North Station but that's tough and cold as fuck.

There's no obvious solution. These companies don't want to be downtown or in a random suburb. They want to be in Cambridge with everybody else. A feasible option might be for these companies to band together and essentially create their own public transit system. Run a bus several times a day from several park and ride type locations in suburban areas. But it's still a miserable commute when they could just move to Austin or another Southern city where workers can get a larger, more updated house and a 30 min commute for the same money.

And this is why we need to think about housing as a regional issue, not a city issue.