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Michelle Wu seems like kind of a disaster for housing in Boston – very little progress on land use reforms, and supporting a quite draconian statewide rent control regime (rent hikes that can be below inflation, vacancy controls, only a 10-year exemption for new construction)? Yikes

We’ve made important progress on land use reforms—revamped our planning department to target as-of-right zoning, rezoned several Boston neighborhoods for the first time in decades incl. major Downtown rezoning, streamlining development reviews & permitting to speed up approvals, & more in the works.