A new climate commitment Gov. Charlie Baker made in his State of the Commonwealth address Tuesday night earned a warm reception from Democratic legislative leaders on Tuesday night, with a new bill expected to be revealed tomorrow.
Housing and Economic Development Secretary Mike Kennealy declined to give a preview Thursday of what Gov. Charlie Baker might say next week in his annual address to the legislature, but it would come as no surprise if the governor tried to nudge legislators to act on his housing production bill.
Making predictions can be a lot of fun. And as we head into the first week of 2020, what better time to look ahead?
Seven months from the finish line, here’s a look at three major issues to watch in the next few months that could mark big changes for the real estate industry,
Greater Boston’s booming real estate industry continues to reshape the local landscape as the real estate cycle passes the decade mark, and 2020 is likely to generate more headlines about how developers are responding to the region’s job growth and housing needs.
State legislators could soon have a chance to consign one real estate trend of 2019 to the scrap heap: inaction on the state’s housing crisis.
Gov. Charlie Baker’s proposal to make zoning changes easier at the local level is one step closer to passage after the Housing Committee voted to advance it alongside 20 other bills aimed at generating new housing production.
A key piece of zoning reform legislation that Gov. Charlie Baker has said could unlock the construction of over 100,000 housing units suddenly sprang back to live yesterday on Beacon Hill after months of hibernation.
With crises everywhere in Massachusetts in how we provide basic necessities like housing and transportation, how can members of the real estate and banking industries get more involved in helping find solutions? Here are some ideas.
While it is nearly impossible to predict how the session will end, legislative leaders have expressed an interest in tackling some significant policy issues including tax revenue, housing and climate change.
News last week that House Speaker Robert DeLeo wasn’t sure Beacon Hill could pass a desperately needed housing production bill by the end of the year should send shivers down everyone’s spine.
What does a heat wave have to do with housing policy? A lot more than you’d think.
Last week, Google announced to some acclaim it would spend $1 billion to build 15,000 market-rate and 5,000 affordable homes in the housing-starved San Francisco Bay area. Before any like-minded Massachusetts actors get a similar idea, we suggest a better use of that money would be helping efforts to modernize our mass transit and suburban zoning laws.
Here are the Massachusetts Association of Realtors 2019-2020 legislative priorities that we advocated for at our 34th Annual Margaret C. Carlson Realtor Day on Beacon Hill on June 12.
As Gov. Charlie Baker and Lt. Gov Karyn Polito barnstorm around the state to drum up support for the administration’s signature piece of housing legislation, the Newton-Needham Regional Chamber is joining the fight.
A bill at the center of Gov. Charlie Baker’s plan to address the state’s housing crisis, that would make it easier for towns to rezone areas for housing construction, is moving forward on Beacon Hill after failing to pass in the last legislative session.
Gov. Charlie Baker and Lt. Gov. Karyn Polito made a stop in Salem Friday as part of a statewide campaign to drum up support for a bill that would make it easier for municipalities to approve housing construction projects.
A plan intended to let one of Boston’s last affordable neighborhoods along the southern end of Washington Street and the Orange Line grow without displacing current residents instead created an incentive structure where developers can’t build the volume of affordable units needed to keep rents in check.
The Baker Administration recently introduced legislation to help address the commonwealth’s housing crisis. Although it appropriately identifies zoning reform as a priority, a key element is missing: specific focus on families with lowest incomes. Here are five additional pieces that could help.
