Adding density can make a specific area more desirable if the additional people make the area more lively, create customers for local businesses, etc. But overall it is a matter of supply/demand, economics 101. The catch is that it can't be just Somerville increasing density, it needs to be other places too At the rate we're going it is pretty much a guarantee that restricting supply will increase increase prices.
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Date: 2014-03-07 09:50 pm (UTC)