Instead of waiting for the Legislature to create a committee that would study how to legalize single-stair multifamily buildings, Gov. Maura Healey moved to create the commission, herself.
Two of the state’s biggest housing advocacy organizations, CHAPA and Abundant Housing-MA, have thrown their weight behind a wide-ranging piece of legislation.
Boston is feeling one of the most pronounced housing crunches in the country. But Mayor Michelle Wu has shied away from setting housing production targets.
A new poll commissioned by a housing advocacy group says majorities of city residents don’t think Mayor Michelle Wu is doing enough to bring down the cost of housing.
Housing advocates say the design of Massachusetts’ highest-profile housing reform to date hobbled it from being able to create housing at scale – and might have hurt future moves.
One set of housing advocates wants voters to repeal the statewide ban on local rent control laws. Another wants to lift yet another big barrier to building moderately-priced homes.
Voters strongly support land use policy changes that would make multifamily development easier in Massachusetts, according to a statewide survey commissioned by Abundant Housing Massachusetts (AHMA).
Maybe not so surprisingly, growing displays of open defiance by a handful of towns opposed to the MBTA Communities law are making lawmakers at the State House a bit nervous.
A quiet fight played out earlier this year over accessory dwelling units, also known as ADUs, in-law apartments or “granny flats.”
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Around 4 in every 5 Greater Boston residents would support adding ADUs, duplexes and triplexes to their neighborhoods.
Developers and brokers say a new, albeit small, pool of state funding called the “Momentum Fund” will break through a logjam that’s severely reduced groundbreakings of major multifamily projects.
A 2017 law then seen as groundbreaking hardly generated few new homes. It left too much room for local officials to create hidden roadblocks, experts in New Hampshire say.
Perched at a gateway intersection to the Newtonville neighborhood, Mark Development’s Trio apartment block is a Rorschach test for competing visions of Newton’s future.
Will the Yes In My Back Yard bill, recently filed on Beacon Hill, might well become called the Maybe In My Back Yard bill, based on the cool reception to some of the legislation’s key provisions?
The state legislature’s Joint Committee on Housing heard a parade of testimony from housing advocates, their colleagues and ordinary voters in support of a bill that aims to supercharge zoning reforms statewide.
There’s broad agreement in Brookline that its main commercial corridor of Harvard Street is one of the town’s crown jewels. A pending fight over how to add more housing there is shaping up to be a hard-fought struggle.
A pro-housing advocacy group is expanding its staff to accelerate compliance with Massachusetts’ Housing Choice law, which requires 175 communities in eastern and central Massachusetts communities to allow high-density multifamily development.
Something is happening when it comes to the development of new housing in Boston, and it’s not good: the number of homes getting teed up for construction is falling off a cliff.
