📊 NEW POLL: 58% of Massachusetts voters support the #LegalizeStarterHomes ballot question to allow smaller-lot single-family homes statewide.
Housing is the top issue for voters — outranking taxes and immigration.
It’s time to build more homes. 🏠
Let's try this again 👋
Hi Bluesky - I'm Massachusetts' Attorney General. You might know me from suing President Trump nearly 50 times, beating Uber and Lyft in court, or being the first woman of color elected to statewide office in MA.
I officially left X today - help me find my MA people?
Screaming in Boston
Can you imagine our Mayor behind a podium that says "Let them Build?"
HOUSING NEWS: Massachusetts Governor Signs Executive Order to Study Single-Stair Residential Buildings
Gov. established an Advisory Group to study the conditions under which single-stair multifamily residential buildings could be permitted in Massachusetts.
www.bostonglobe.com/2026/02/12/b...
Police in Bloomington, MN just announced that one of the guys they arrested in an underage sex trafficking sting was a **background checker for ICE agents.**
He had a high security clearance in the Trump administration... and he was caught trying to abuse children. Sickening.
“Yes, I’m a YIMBY,” Raman said, referring to the pro-housing “Yes in My Backyard” acronym.
www.latimes.com/california/s...
there’s a verified ICE report in East Somerville this morning, neighbors.
y’all have the LUCE number in your phones, right? maybe donate if you can, I just made mine recurring www.lucemass.org/donate
Amazing score by Mamdani bringing Andrew in to his already abundance-pilled administration. I've enjoyed getting to know and work with Andrew through @welcomingneighbors.us...and I won't tell anyone in NYC that he's actually a Mass. native! 😅
Missoula.
Montana.
In Boston still have single-family exclusive zones and other areas where even a classic triple decker can't be built by-right, not to mention a whole mess of costly parking mandates.
There's no reason, other than political will, that we can't do this in Boston.
People including a @bostonglobe.com columnist are lamenting the loss of a longstanding gas station in Jamaica Plain, and its replacement with 230 new homes.
No wonder we simultaneously crises in both housing and climate.
Allowing starter homes on smaller lots ➡️ building homes that everyone can afford.
Let's make it reality.
I really want to know the back story about how this person ended up with so many Amtrak cafe car sandwiches to give away on our local buy nothing group
Left Permanent
NIMBYs GOP control
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Don't build homes in blue states
I know there was a protest at Park Street tonight but I found out too late. Does anyone know if others are planned for the near future (I suppose not tomorrow or Monday)? I'm feeling so angry and helpless that it seems likely it would be nice to be surrounded by others feeling similar.
Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him.
White. Hot. Rage.
It sounds counterintuitive, but allowing buildings with just one staircase access can actually produce safer buildings.
Not to mention the tremendous effect on liveability that can come with smaller footprint buildings.
Read this excellent story!
I am shocked to learn that Montgomery Ward still exists (at least in catalogue format)
(Ok, this is apropos of something in particular)
Apropos of nothing in particular, new development in Mass. increases a city's Prop 2.5 basis. That is to say, if a city is having property tax issues, incentivizing new housing & commercial dev is one way to increase revenue potentially w/out raising individual residential taxes or prop 2.5 override
Seems Boston would beg to differ
Massachusetts has entered the chat
History has nothing to say about a fascist government wanting a list of Jews at a higher education institution. I won't hold my breath waiting for Jonathan Greenblatt's condemnation.
Congratulations to our 2025 Legislators of the Year @councillorsiddiqui.bsky.social and @burhanazeem.bsky.social, the newly selected Mayor and Vice Mayor of the Cambridge City Council!
I know there's lots of bad stuff in the world right now, but there is some good news
How would the trajectory of US and global politics have been different if this case went the other way and Gore won Florida?
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/12/m...
No way in the world it would ever get done without the active involvement by and convincing of those in positions of power/influence (i.e., MA Assn of Fire Chiefs) that are "responsible for the current bad codes"
If they're safe in Minnesota, they're safe in Massachusetts too.
Let's get it done: malegislature.gov/Bills/194/S2...
In 2024 we helped to pass a legislative study to prove what we already knew.
That 75' single egress buildings are safe, and the #MNleg should legalize them.
Today that report is now live! dli.mn.gov/sites/defaul...
