This is such a strange Globe story. Not in terms of reporting. Rather, it’s the Wu administration’s attempt to jumpstart housing construction by … lowering expectations?

Here’s the graf that jumped out at me:

A draft of the Wu administration’s new plan, obtained by the Globe, indicates the city hopes to permit 3,000 new housing units annually over her second four-year term. That’s fewer than the 13,000 she set out to build over her first four years in office, but roughly on pace with construction over the last 18 months.

So they’re lowering the bar to the current level and calling it ‘ambitious’? As a HB reader notes: “My read between the lines is that Reality is setting in at City Hall (very quietly of course).” … Btw: construction starts are the key, not permits. That’s where this administration has been failing — getting construction projects off the ground. … At Contrarian Boston, Scott Van Voorhis is rightly blasting the administration’s draft proposal, saying it’s basically a rehash of an older plan that doesn’t lower the onerous 20 percent affordability requirement.