Barry Bluestone

Experts like Barry Bluestone, a professor emeritus of political economy and the founding director of the Dukakis Center at Northeastern University seem to think these students are responsible for the Sept. 1 move-in date.

Barry Bluestone is an economist and professor emeritus at Northeastern University.

Households here spend a staggering 47 percent of their monthly income on rent or mortgage prices, estimates Barry Bluestone, founding dean of Northeastern’s School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs.

Experts like Barry Bluestone, a professor emeritus of political economy and the founding director of the Dukakis Center at Northeastern University seem to think these students are responsible for the Sept. 1 move-in date. 

“We need housing for them that’s appropriate. Unless we can make housing more affordable, our labor market will suffer,” said Barry Bluestone, professor emeritus at Northeastern University.

Economist and housing specialist Barry Bluestone, professor emeritus at Northeastern University, called Wu’s proposal “as close to the perfect rent control bill as possible. It should not have any impact on new housing construction, but it would possibly reduce some of the dramatic increases in rents.”

Many factors are at play in driving the high levels of inflation Americans continue to experience, according to Barry Bluestone, a professor at Northeastern University.

“It’s very hard to find a neighborhood where you can put in a large-scale residence hall without getting tremendous resistance. Not in my backyard,” explains Northeastern University economist Barry Bluestone. 

Barry Bluestone, a Northeastern University professor who has studied rent control, said those warnings from developers are concerning, but may be overblown. A cornerstone of Wu’s policy is a 15-year carve-out for new construction, which should give plenty of time for developers to recoup their costs on projects and then some.

Wu’s proposal is far less of a blunt instrument than what other cities employ, said Barry Bluestone, a Northeastern University professor and former author of the Greater Boston Housing Report Card.