K-12 enrollment is plummeting and state funding is tied to enrollment. Districts are begging for kids. We already covered this.
This thread is about a policy designed to lower housing costs. It's not about net migration to/from MA (which, as I'd hope you know, continues to be only in the low positive in large part because of cost of living, whether owning or renting.) and how to increase it. You're taking a point about neighborhood character and changing the subject to something this thread isn't about.
As for SFH prices and MUD prices being unrelated, fine, let's have another basic lesson on how markets work. At the margin (think about all those childless couples you mentioned before) there are plenty of people who would rent or buy a condo within a MUD over a SFH at given prices. Those people are real. That impacts SFH prices. It's no different than the explosion of SFH suburbs making urban rents cheaper. When the building stopped and prices began steadily rising through the 80s, 90s, and 00s, urban rents became more and more attractive to young professionals who in decades prior might have bought a SFH. This is reflected in how the median age of first time home buyers has been rising since the, *surprise*, early 80s.
