The realities of a housing market where affordable homes, condos and apartments are increasingly hard to come by for middle- and low-income residents has prompted numerous proposals on Beacon Hill for spurring housing development. But so far, there’s no consensus.
As frightening as the prospect of a rent control proposal on Beacon Hill may be to some the issue is a red herring that threatens to distract everyone from efforts to get Gov. Charlie Baker’s Act to Promote Housing Choice passed as soon as possible.
Overnight, a new push by a pair of progressive state lawmakers to bring back rent control would pull the rug out from under the apartment boom, one that has seen a bevy of new rental high-rises take shape in Boston and Cambridge.
A pair of progressive legislators are planning a push on Beacon Hill to legalize local rent control laws.
The state legislature is back to square one on housing production legislation after failing to make progress on that in 2018 and with a new session and new bills filed for consideration in the 2019-2020 session.
Meet the new millionaire tax: It’s the same as the old millionaire tax that was rejected on constitutional grounds by the Supreme Judicial Court – keeping it off the 2018 ballot – with one key difference.
A bill filed at the Massachusetts State House seeks to help speed the state’s transition to renewable forms of energy.
In response to a proposal from lawmakers to increase local fees on ride-hailing companies, Uber said the fees would place an unfair burden on Massachusetts residents who rely on its service.
A union that represents electrical workers plans to withhold direct campaign contributions to state legislators until further notice, saying they hope lawmakers will “feel the pinch” they say families are feeling due to inaction on important bills.
Gov. Charlie Baker, who lives with his wife in their turn-of-the-20th century Swampscott home, has no plans to invest his new $65,000 housing stipend in a property or rent closer to the office.
State budget writers agreed Monday to build fiscal year 2020 budget plans on the assumption that state tax revenues will grow by 2.7 percent over the current fiscal year.
Under the bill, National Grid will have to eat the cost of providing unemployment benefits to its locked-out workers, and will not be able to pass the costs on to ratepayers
Gov. Charlie Baker said he does not think the door is shut on rental regulation getting done in the next month.
Efforts to fight three major problems – a housing shortage, opioid addiction and climate change – feature prominently on Gov. Charlie Baker’s to-do list for 2019.
Massachusetts lawmakers are considering a bill that would require National Grid to provide health insurance to locked-out gas workers and prohibit public funds from flowing to the company until the labor dispute ends.
While lawmakers still haven’t decided how to allocate the fiscal 2018 surplus, Massachusetts taxpayers continue to deliver revenue to Beacon Hill at levels higher than state government leaders forecast.
Tamara Small has been the commercial real estate industry’s leading voice on Beacon Hill in her role as senior vice president of government affairs for NAIOP Massachusetts.
Maybe you can’t wait to bet on the Celtics or Patriots, or maybe you don’t particularly give a hoot. But either way, if we’re going to legalize sports betting in Massachusetts, could we just pass a bill and get it over with and not spend years pointlessly debating it?
Boston real estate agent and condo expert David Bates reviewed the 50 most expensive (per square foot) Boston condominiums in 2017 and found five key amenities they had in common.
Facing a rent hike for office space and struggling to retain highly qualified and specialized lawyers, Attorney General Maura Healey asked lawmakers on Tuesday to give her office more money in fiscal 2019 than Gov. Charlie Baker recommended in his budget proposal.
