WBUR
reported this morning on the decreasing likelihood of recent
Boston-area graduates to put down roots in the area. Sadly, on the same
day as this report our friend Sozi announced that he was taking a job
with a law firm in Philly, where the real estate prices are, if not
cheap, at least within the realm of comprehension.

There’s only one way to reverse this brain drain and its disasterous
consequences for our local economy, which is to build more housing
stock. And, let’s be honest, what that also means is getting more local
communities that oppose development to shoulder their part of the
problem and figure out a way to let more housing get built.

It’s no deep secret that many communities work hard to keep families
and their tax-spending kids out. It’s time we took power out of these
obstructionists’ hands.

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