"Can you imagine being Etel Haxhiaj, a literal national policy expert on housing and homelessness, and you show up every Tuesday to confront the fact that the best practices you intimately understand will never get approved?"
I mean, look at Tracy O'Connell Novick. She's a consummate school policy wonk, yet we failed to re-elect her to the School Committee. Why would we listen to a housing policy expert on housing matters?
Re: Spectrum, the chances of them actually leaving the city are very low. Even if Batista were to accept the committee’s recommendation, it would just end up like it did in Springfield with Comcast, where they spend a few months negotiating a new contract where the city extracts a few concessions related to jobs, franchise fees, PEG channel funding, etc.
"Can you imagine being Etel Haxhiaj, a literal national policy expert on housing and homelessness, and you show up every Tuesday to confront the fact that the best practices you intimately understand will never get approved?"
I mean, look at Tracy O'Connell Novick. She's a consummate school policy wonk, yet we failed to re-elect her to the School Committee. Why would we listen to a housing policy expert on housing matters?
Good piece 👏
Re: Spectrum, the chances of them actually leaving the city are very low. Even if Batista were to accept the committee’s recommendation, it would just end up like it did in Springfield with Comcast, where they spend a few months negotiating a new contract where the city extracts a few concessions related to jobs, franchise fees, PEG channel funding, etc.