YIMBY

Everybody knows the correct way to build a better city is to make nice things for rich people and then watch them sprinkle their magic everywhere.  Why do you people hate development so much? Check your privilege and let us work.

“Do I wish that was a more diverse neighborhood reflective of the city and society as a whole? Absolutely,” said Golden, director of the Boston Planning and Development Agency. “But we’ve been using our limited tools to nurture economic development over there for the last 20 years to make sure those benefits are felt in lots of direct and indirect ways throughout the city.”

He noted that while the $18 billion in public investment has not created a racially inclusive waterfront, it has brought jobs, tax payments, and other benefits to “a huge swath of Bostonians.”

If you don't let us do the red lining and the publicly subsidized gentrification, none of these job creators will be able to trickle down on you.  That's how this works. Did you not read the Trump tax plan?  Just ask LaToya. She knows. 

Charbonnet later accused Cantrell of supporting incentives for Magnolia Marketplace, a new shopping center on South Claiborne Avenue, so that the developer — who Charbonnet said was a “political friend” of Cantrell’s — could keep the extra cent of sales tax imposed on the site. Charbonnet said that tax, which she said is now the highest sales tax in the country, is hurting poor residents in the area.

Cantrell defended the project, saying it was needed to attract national retail stores to an area of town that had seen disinvestment after Hurricane Katrina and that it is on track to pay off the incentive early. She also denied knowing who Charbonnet was referring to as her “political friend” and pushed back against the idea that the extra tax — which covers only the shopping center itself — is falling on low-income residents nearby.

“The facts are this. Maybe you don’t understand the need for national retail throughout the city of New Orleans,” Cantrell said. “The people that are patronizing it, the customers, are from throughout the city.”

I wonder if they took LaToya and the Mayorlings on a tour of Seaport when they were at the Kennedy School orientation last month.  The little strip mall with the TJ Max is fun and all but those people really know what to do with the big bucks.