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Are we kind of being pricks?

Everybody has a crafty way of getting around development incentives without doing any development.

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Halina Bennet
May 06, 2026
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A man in Massachusetts asks the big question. (Photo via the Marblehead Independent)

This week proved that even with legal momentum, housing gets built only at the will of NIMBYs. As cities test the limitations of development incentives, the Trump administration proposes stripping HUD of billions of dollars of community- and housing-development tools ami…

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