We’ll Never Have Enough Affordable Housing Until Government Starts Paying for It
Everyone needs housing they can afford. But why do politicians insist developers pay for it, ignoring the basic economics of construction?
Everyone needs housing they can afford. But why do politicians insist developers pay for it, ignoring the basic economics of construction?
Boston’s life science boom offers a fresh chance to spread economic benefits to Roxbury’s most important development parcel as the city prepares to solicit proposals for the 7.6-acre site.
Roxbury’s city-owned parcel P3 has been a place where development proposals go to die, despite the periodic efforts of top elected officials to spread some of Boston’s building boom into a neighborhood long starved of private real estate investment.
In a decade of commercial real estate success in Boston, the Roxbury neighborhood has lagged seriously behind. Could that be changing?