>So the current residents will be driven to areas with less transportation and services.

What? The area is getting cheaper, not more expensive. That drives people to an area, not out of it.

If the people moving in are more affluent than existing residents and push them out financially, yeah. I very much doubt that since we're talking about lowering supply to decrease housing costs. The people living there already can afford to. If costs go down, then they'll still be able to afford to live there.

You probably would see rent come down in some places as it's unlikely the closing of the gap would be uniform. Some places will actually hit their targets while others will fall short. Then you get people moving from the latter to the former.

You know you described a net positive outcome, right?

You and your neighbors are X. The people moving into the new, denser housing are Y. Y is obviously greater than X. So X people commute further, and Y people commute shorter.

Post history checks out

I'm sure Eversource's executives will take a 43% salary cut in solidarity

I literally got a check from BCBS last year. Google is much faster than spreading BS