Boston Mayor Michelle Wu has pledged to dramatically grow the city’s stock of public housing units. But the effort will hinge on public officials and private developers collaborating quickly this year.
Architectural avatars of efficient and livable middle-class housing, triple-deckers altered the landscape Massachusetts in the early 20th century. Over 100 years later, Massachusetts’ affordability crisis is prompting a fresh look at the form.
Dariela Villón-Maga has first-hand experience in the role that affordable housing can play in neighborhood stability. Now, Villon-Maga’s DMV Housing Partners is creating new affordable home ownership opportunities in Boston
With housing construction stalled across Boston, the Wu administration is thinking big when it comes to ways to get apartment and condominium projects moving again.
An adaptive reuse project is transforming an 1891 church in Boston’s Bay Village into 18 residential condominiums.
A developer proposes more housing in a section of South Boston undergoing widespread conversions of industrial properties to higher-income-generating uses.
Policymakers in Boston could be facing a catch-22 while pursuing a pair of popular but potentially contradictory goals: encouraging developers to build more residential condominiums while requiring a higher percentage of income-restricted units.
Boston’s housing supply shortage has reached a tipping point. Allowing landlords to add bedrooms to apartments without the slow, confusing and expensive variance process will rapidly address this vast need.
A West Roxbury commercial property will be redeveloped as a 70-unit apartment complex with sustainable features by Boston-based RISE in partnership with DivcoWest.
A potential multifamily development site across from South Boston’s former Edison power plant was acquired by a Connecticut developer this week for $19.4 million.
Sheila Dillon, Boston’s chief of housing, lays the blame for a downturn in the construction of new units at the feet of larger economic headwinds and high interest rates.
Something is happening when it comes to the development of new housing in Boston, and it’s not good: the number of homes getting teed up for construction is falling off a cliff.
Are petty City Council politics stalling plans for Mayor Michelle Wu’s ambitious overhaul of the one board that holds sway over most development projects in Boston?
Boston’s newest luxury apartment property presents two distinct facades designed to complement the architecture of the Bay Village and Back Bay neighborhoods.
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu says the city will be filing a home rule petition today to join the state’s new pilot program for communities seeking to ban natural gas hookups in new construction and major renovations.
When it comes to combatting ever more expensive housing prices and rents, Boston mayors have pretty much drawn from the same playbook over the past quarter-century. Whether that strategy is actually working is a matter of much debate.
A new 300-unit luxury rental complex in Boston’s South End has announced its initial rents including offers of two-and-a-half months free on some units.
Developers have unveiled long-term plans for a Huntington Avenue hotel that’s being leased to Northeastern University for temporary student housing during the pandemic.
A Boston development team is seeking to transform a 13-parcel site behind South Bay Center with construction of a 213,590-square-foot multifamily complex, including 70 compact living units and 166 conventional residences.
