Cambridge is considering a bold step designed to boost its affordable housing inventory: allow developers to build taller buildings anywhere in the city if they agree to build only 100 percent income-restricted units.
The math underpinning Massachusetts’s affordable housing challenges looks stark.
Homeowners Rehab Inc. has received funding for a 98-unit apartment community in Cambridge to be called Concord Highlands. It will be the largest affordable housing community in Cambridge in 40 years, with all units being deed-restricted and affordable.
