The issue was that it was never brought to the residents’ attention. The City tried to sneak it through. Maybe you can’t afford housing in Waban and that makes you jealous. The real issue has nothing to do with the price of a house in Waban.
The sub-story is that this is a textbook example of the limousine liberal mindset. These people are all for all the usual liberal causes... until it lands in their backyard. Waban is the the home of the "beautiful people" as Howe Carr would say.
You ever looked at home prices in this region? Price-tag shock. I would put their local home prices in the same category as San Francisco, and to the extreme.
I think you mean envious and I can afford that neighborhood.
I have lived in neighborhoods that don't (are too poor to) donate so much money to Democrats and those neighborhoods had halfway houses and juvenile lockups right next to door to homes where children were living. The local people had no real "say" in whether or not these facilities were placed there (often they don't know they're there until someone escapes from a facility). It's people who live in places like Waban that make the decisions as to where these facilities are located and they're the first in line to call you a hater and a racist for visiting Free Republic.
I say let them put their money where their mouths are and locate these "charitable" facilities in their own neighborhoods first.