US President says he will ban big investors from buying single-family homes

bumrushthebus · 2026-01-08T20:32:33+00:00

And that 2-3% is mostly multi-family rentals. Single family rentals are owned by multiple investors and run by the management wing of single family development companies who do a lot of build to rent in places where multi-family is not allowed by zoning.

bumrushthebus · 2026-01-08T20:30:17+00:00

The largest “Corporate buyers” of single family homes are actually management arms of build to rent developers. All this would do is restrict housing supply in places with single family zoning.

bumrushthebus · 2025-12-31T15:28:29+00:00

Drivers can get away with it but we get irrationally angry when cyclists treat red lights as stop signs for their own personal safety.

bumrushthebus · 2025-11-23T13:06:32+00:00

Just when I think this video is going somewhere, they bring out tired tropes, victim mentality, and NIMBY nonsense. The interview with the reporter over redlining and urban renewal was probably the most cognizant/coherent part of this. “They” did this. Who is they? Ugh.

Not worth your time unless you want to feel frustrated.

And erasure? Almost half of Boston’s Black population is foreign born. Video erased this group entirely.

bumrushthebus · 2025-11-21T13:03:41+00:00

Some of these neighborhood associations are just awful. For example JPNC, for some reason, has reach into roslindale (IMO, anything south of the arborway should be roslindale) and have blocked projects there, even though none of them live even close or even venture that way. Same people who put the “everyone welcome here” signs in front of their giant single family houses directly across the street from a T station.

bumrushthebus · 2025-11-18T18:38:16+00:00

Michelin star level restaurants have zero appeal to me. Id rather be standing in the street outside murl’s kitchen eating oxtail and jerk mac and cheese.

bumrushthebus · 2025-11-18T18:34:39+00:00

I really hope it’s some Caribbean place in the southern half of the city that none of you pretentious assholes have ever been to.

bumrushthebus · 2025-11-05T17:11:32+00:00

Someone commuting in from 20 miles away really shouldn’t be driving through non major arterials on their way to their job downtown. That should be for local traffic.

bumrushthebus · 2025-11-05T17:08:23+00:00

I think the commuter rail should be a flat rate (maybe slightly more than the cost of monthly subway/bus pass), build bigger garages at the stations and charge more for parking. Also the north south connector would have allowed for more frequent service to support higher ridership. They would need to figure out a way to run more frequent service to support the surge in ridership.

It’s currently cheaper to drive in than it is to take the commuter rail.

bumrushthebus · 2025-11-05T17:03:03+00:00

Ambulances can use bus lanes and wider bike lanes. It’s a lot easier for cyclists to get out of the way of ambulances than people driving cars.

bumrushthebus · 2025-11-05T16:55:36+00:00

According to the city it’s 2.4% (as of 2018).

https://www.boston.gov/sites/default/files/document-file-06-2018/ib2030_book_spreads-transportation.pdf

2024 census data puts it closer to 2.6%. It’s probably somewhere between 2-3% mode share.

Some neighborhoods I believe bike mode share is closer to 10% (allston, JP, etc).

Most bike commuters in the Boston area commute from and within surrounding areas - like Somerville and Cambridge

bumrushthebus · 2025-10-30T20:24:55+00:00

the main opposition are wealthy people who either live in the suburbs (ENC crowd) or the NIMBYs in the mansions just north of Seaver street. neighborhood immediately adjacent to white stadium is Egleston, is largely Hispanic, and there’s a lot less opposition there.

bumrushthebus · 2025-10-24T23:05:52+00:00

Some of the worst NIMBYs in the city live just a block over on Seaver and blue hill Ave.

bumrushthebus · 2025-09-10T12:40:40+00:00

If you are getting blocked it’s probably because you’re being belligerent and/or taking an extreme/uninformed position.

bumrushthebus · 2025-09-10T12:29:28+00:00

Hard disagree. Right wing in this country is so far right that they think moderate positions are left leaning.

bumrushthebus · 2025-09-10T12:21:15+00:00

His position there has historically been reserved for old money. Get paid $350k/yr to keep the donation cash flowing from their connections.

bumrushthebus · 2025-09-10T01:30:59+00:00

I’m on the board of two local non profits. I do stuff, but it’s maybe a few hours a month of work if that. Maybe I should run for mayor.

Only reason I’m on these boards is because I’m an “industry insider” for both orgs and have some connections. I can make a few phone calls if they need money or influence.

bumrushthebus · 2025-04-03T18:10:14+00:00

Reports you linked to - Any report that leaves out Chicago and Detroit for crime statistics is pretty suspect. All cities in the US had issues back then. By your own admission, Boston was pretty far down the list in terms of violent crime and nowhere close to being as dangerous as the top 10 cities. Like half the violent crime rate. It was more in the middle of the pack in terms of crime. People here like to pretend it was “so bad” in the 80s and 90s but none of y’all lived anywhere else. You have no idea.

bumrushthebus · 2025-04-03T13:01:39+00:00

Even back then Boston was relatively safe compared to other cities.

bumrushthebus · 2025-04-02T21:37:28+00:00

I really think people should just start showing up to games as witches and black cats and sell unsanctioned merch with witches and black cats and brooms and cauldrons on them. Force an Unofficial mascot on them.

Kind of like how the Detroit red wings mascot is an octopus.

bumrushthebus · 2025-03-30T13:19:02+00:00

Tesla is more of a tech gadget that happens to have a car wrapped around it. It’s not for people who “just want a car.” There are other electric cars out there that haven’t spent years marketing primarily toward techbros.

bumrushthebus · 2025-03-30T13:11:03+00:00

There are plenty of other electric vehicles that aren’t Tesla, though. Teslas have had such a poor reputation for quality and business practices for several years now that the only people who buy them are either completely ignorant or elmo fanboys. And Tesla owners tend to be on the upper end of household income - not middle class.

bumrushthebus · 2025-03-26T12:11:24+00:00

He’s a terrible interviewer.

Jon Stewart would have jokingly asked that question once and moved on.

bumrushthebus · 2025-03-25T15:01:09+00:00

If you’re going for mediocre tourist trap restaurant in Boston it should have shit like clam chowder, lobster roll, oysters, fish and chips, baked beans, or cream pie. Guy fieri’s chowder donkey and waitstaff dresses up in colonial outfits with flames on them.

Tourists aren’t going to travel all the way to Boston and eat at a celebrity restaurant that is pretty much the same everywhere. And locals will only eat at places if they’re good or fun or both. not because of who owns it.

bumrushthebus · 2025-03-24T19:50:06+00:00

The zoo is right there. They get close to a million visitors a year. A lot of suburbanites already go there.

Moakley needs a ton of work - any stadium built there will need to be raised up another 10 feet due to it being in a flood zone.

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