So you don't think change is achievable in the political progress? You don't believe in democracy? Because the solution is sitting right there.

Your self-defeating (and kinda smug) attitude is a major obstacle in attaining this.

Yeah the people talking as if Fane Tower was going to house offices for GE or something make me laugh.

Your take is missing the corresponding, accompanying fact that, countrywide, corporations and billionaires should be properly taxed to address precisely this kind of situation.

It's really a glaring thing to omit. We know what the solution should be, it's just unpopular amongst political donors.

The unavoidable problem is that any large business is going to want tax breaks and other perks that really make their coming here not a big coup for state and local governments. The hypermobility of capital has created a race to the bottom in this regard - the only way to compete with other locales for "job creation" is to give up damn near every benefit in favor of wooing the corporation. At that point you're pinning all your hopes on trickle down economics (good jobs will be created, and they'll have higher wages!) but even that is misleading because corporations routinely depress wages and conduct mass layoffs. RI doesn't have good jobs, and barring a wave of change addressing the inherent flaws in capitalism, it's mostly going to stay that way.

Feel like one of the reasons why these have become popular to develop is because there are presumably no employees so no cost of labor, no risk of unionizing...

would live in that U-Haul building across from the Big Blue Bug on 95

holds up spork

the university has room for 50 more students in their dorms now.

(I know that's simplifying things a bit, but if more student housing is built off campus, who's to say the university doesn't just admit more students and continue to allow off-campus landlords to subsidize their housing issues.)

I prefer the annual tradition of Columbus' statue being publicly vandalized and defiled.

Reasons why we can't afford homes

Yep. These are the kind of people (the gentrifying realtors) who make sure the rest of us stay stuck as renters.

nature is healing

actually licking a new york property developer's boot and accommodating his vanity project is progressive

Thanks for especially emphasizing for all to see the importance of investing in our schools.

ugh I just hate it when cities and towns try to improve themselves.

Fellini's overrated. The pizza falls apart before you can eat it because they have zero chill on the toppings.

Lived in Boston for 10 years lol one of the hang-ups of city living was walking/biking back from the grocery store.

Fox Point already has East Side Marketplace and the Waterman Street Whole Foods.

This overlooks the fact that many in the surrounding neighborhood do not have off-street parking.

unfortunately it's the wrong kind of co-op.

This Is My House, This Is My Home.

Wasn't there a games and comics place on the East Side? Off of Brook Street near Wickenden maybe?

Rate changes are subject to regulatory approval. Nothing to do with previous compassion, everything to do with regulatory capture (a key feature of capitalism).

Taking something people desperately need to survive and making it unaffordable because of profit motive is capitalism. It is a decision made in the furtherance of capital to the detriment of social need.

Many of those people cannot get the care they need because healthcare is inaccessible because it is commodified because of capitalism.

Additionally, the number of homeless folks is going to increase this season with the cost of heat/utilities going up because of political/lobbying efforts of moneyed interest (again, capitalism). People will become homeless because they cannot afford the increased rate because they work for employers who are incentivized, and enabled, to depress the employees' wages (again, capitalism).