
Boston Approves Net Zero Zoning Code Despite Industry Concerns
New Boston developments will be required to comply with new clean energy regulations likely to increase project and long-term operating costs.
New Boston developments will be required to comply with new clean energy regulations likely to increase project and long-term operating costs.
A dozen real estate projects received a combined $64.2 million in funding toward development and preservation of 637 apartments and for-sale condominiums in Boston.
Boston officials approved a Mission Hill apartment development after the developer agreed to donate $200,000 to a neighborhood nonprofit housing group.
A $10.5 million real estate deal with Lesley University creates an opportunity for a major affordable housing development in Cambridge’s Porter Square.
Development approval for 218 apartments on a vacant Mission Hill property hit a delay last night as Boston officials reacted to opposition from neighborhood residents.
A historic former office building, hotel and theater originally constructed in 1892, downtown Springfield’s 13-31 Elm St. fell into disrepair and vacancy for the past three decades.
Consistent public school enrollment declines mean that surplus school buildings could be a real source of new homes, but towns and cities often lack the expertise to do it themselves.
The oldest mill in the city of Lawrence was converted into multifamily housing including decarbonized building systems in a $39.2 million adaptive reuse project by WinnCompanies of Boston.
Developers and real estate executives weren’t tapping furiously at their keyboards and burning up my phone line in praise of the mayor’s announcement of a $100 million “Housing Acceleration Fund.”
After five years as CEO of major Boston nonprofit housing developer Madison Park Development Corp., Leslie Reid joined the Massachusetts Housing Investment Corp. this summer to oversee its expansion and new product development.
A new 19-story residential tower is coming to downtown Boston, with a focus on supporting formerly homeless individuals and offering affordable rental options for working-class Bay Staters strained by the state’s housing crisis.
Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez rose to national prominence with her Green New Deal. Now, she’s turning her attention to the nation’s housing crisis with similar fanciful thinking.
Massachusetts ranks 50 out of the 50 states as the worst state for elder economic security – and that is largely due to high housing costs. 2Life Communities CEO Amy Schectman wants to change that.
Housing production can get stuck at almost any stage, be it community input, zoning approval, hiring, material acquisition or construction. Affordable housing financiers are taking aim at a key barrier: accessing capital in the first place.
The first housing permitted under the city of Cambridge’s affordable housing density bonus program celebrated its groundbreaking last week next to North Cambridge’s Danehy Park.
A nonprofit developer that has agreed to purchase a former Fenway laundromat submitted plans for a 24-unit affordable housing project.
A Chelsea affordable housing development is securing site control thanks to Eastern Bank and MassDevelopment.
On the front lines in the housing affordability battle, Suneeth John leads the Fenway CDC’s real estate team in identifying promising sites and finding financing sources to acquire and develop them.
Perhaps if we got more granular about what we mean when we say “affordable,” we would have more success creating affordable homes and talking with each other rather than – at best – past each other.
The newly-completed Michael E. Haynes Arms development in Roxbury includes 55 housing units and a new headquarters for Cruz Construction.