Gov. Maura Healey is still waiting for the legislature to act on her big housing bill, but she paused Monday to swear in two panels of developers, municipal leaders and advocates Monday, charged with charting more housing production reforms.
A $1.5 million cut to a state grant program for first-time homebuyer counseling might seem small, but the nonprofit community developers who use the funds say it could gut their work trying to give aspiring homebuyers of color a shot in the ever-more-expensive Massachusetts housing market.
A huge batch of state grants for 27 different projects announced Thursday will see 1,597 affordable and mixed-income housing units built or preserved.
Over four dozen owners and operators of affordable housing units announced a joint pledge this morning to work with their tenants in financial trouble due to the COVID-19 recession and avoid evicting them over missed rent payments.
What does an MIT professor, an African American-owned cleaning company, a Chinatown affordable housing project and a 1.4 million-square-foot tower in Downtown Boston have in common? The answer: everything.
The Boston Planning & Development Agency board approved a tower funded in part by affordable housing payments from Millennium Partners’ Winthrop Square tower, which will also contain a new Boston Public Library branch on the ground floor.
