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105 Towns Have OK’d MBTA Zoning

State officials cheered the news Friday that over 100 towns and cities in Eastern Massachusetts have now adopted zoning to comply with the MBTA Communities law instead of flouting it.

Report Calls for Wide-Ranging Rental Voucher Revamp

Fewer than half of those who need housing assistance get it in Massachusetts thanks to shortfalls in state funding, a new report says, but a new approach to rental aid could fix this while helping drive solutions to the housing crisis.

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Our Legislators Are Off in La-La Land

Beacon Hill is sitting on a mountain of federal cash. And House and Senate leaders are inexplicably giving the brush-off to calls to devote much of it to affordable housing production even as prices and rents are skyrocketing.

Will Mass. Legislature Meet the Moment?

Banker & Tradesman’s editorial board is right to underscore the legislative urgency of this moment. The impacts of the pandemic and the damaging legacy of racial injustice continue to put our entire commonwealth’s future at risk.