Boston mayoral candidate Andrea Campbell told an audience at an online forum Wednesday that she would remove fully-affordable multifamily developments from the city’s Article 80 approvals process if elected.
In 21st century Boston, real estate values defy gravity and displacement pressures spread throughout the city – even in gritty Newmarket as long-time industrial tenants wonder whether rent hikes will force them to leave if life science uses start making inroads.
Boston needs a development process that makes the most of our remarkable assets. First, we need to shake up the BPDA. Second, we need to speed up the development process. Third, we need to make Boston’s zoning more predictable.
Nearly equal shares of Boston voters strongly support ways to fix the region’s housing crisis that many developers might say are at cross-purposes: rent control and promoting more housing development.
Boston City Councilor Andrea Campbell says she wants to establish a land bank, reform the Boston Planning & Development Agency and lead a citywide rezoning effort to address the city’s housing affordability crisis.
As the MBTA’s latest fare hike went into effect this morning, over 300 city councilors, state legislators activists and volunteers led by at-large Boston City Councilor Michelle Wu fanned out across the MBTA system to canvas riders, protest the fare increases and build support for efforts to fix the system.
