Category: Boston

You’d rather we were sleeping together? Part 2, not five

9 April, 2008 (09:08) | Boston, Demographics, Local issues, Student housing, Tenure | No comments

[Continued from yesterday’s Part 1.]
 
Yesterday we saw that Boston, whose mayor I’ve alternately tweaked and applauded, has now decided that while four or fewer students living together are all right, five or more are right out:
 

In the Real World, will three of you have to move out?
 
Continuing from the Boston Globe story, we discover that […]

You’d rather we were sleeping together? Part 1, only four

8 April, 2008 (09:40) | Boston, Demographics, Local issues, Student housing, Tenure | No comments

What’s a family?  And who decides?
 
In that bizarre city across the river from me, I’ve tweaked the mayor for his foolish approach to taxation and applauded him for his visionary pipe dream of moving City Hall out of downtown, but he at least is not the leading force behind the latest splutteringly dumb initiative being […]