I can see a state-level way out of the West Coast housing shortage, long, hard and painful though it may have to be; I don't see any way to address New England's housing woes that doesn't involve Jim Crow South-level federally enforced de-nimbyfication.
bussing but for building 4 story apartment buildings.
Need a generation of after-school specials, comics, civics textbooks and religious education emphasizing the value and importance of welcoming new neighbors and businesses into the community. Come to think of it, reruns of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood ought to do the trick.
This, but for accepting grade-separated cycle roads and parking meters being added to Main Street.
get david byrne to do a tv special