Harvard's Monopoly board

Was looking at development concentration on the BRA's website last week. What's going on in that area is amazing - 3.4 million sf of development in the pipeline (excluding completed projects) with another 5.8 mmm sf down the street in Fenway. By contrast, across all of JP, West Roxbury, Roslindale, Hyde Park and Mattapan which probably represents 35-40% of the city geographically - there is 2 million sf of development. Not all of this will be developed - as some projects just won't get financed and some of this will take years if not decades to accomplish - but that's an incredible amount of space.

What is interesting is that most of the space is proposed as luxury condos and offices - even though there is already a glut of this kind of development and absorption rates are pitifully small even in good times. Most of the space in the other neighborhoods is actually for affordable and city housing. It's a stark tale of two cities - ultra high end development in the waterside "fishhook" from Brighton to Fort Point and dominated by low end/affordable in the rest of the inland portion of the city.

What's the middle to do?