Despite calls from housing experts, municipal leaders and Gov. Charlie Baker himself, House Speaker Bob DeLeo said he wasn’t ready to commit to passing a bill aimed at spurring housing production by the end of 2019.
The governor and House speaker each have a similar plan to provide $1 billion over 10 years to help cities and towns prepare for and adjust to climate change, though the speaker wants to borrow the money while the governor is proposing a specific tax increase to fund his program. At a hearing Monday, activists and lawmakers suggested a third option – how about doing both?
Addressing climate change through mitigation and adaptation will require massive amounts of funding and collaboration between federal, state, local, private and philanthropic entities.
The Massachusetts Association of Realtors said in a statement released Monday it will formally oppose Gov. Charlie Baker’s proposal to increase real estate transfer taxes by 50 percent in order to fund climate change resiliency projects.
While we have made some progress in reducing greenhouse gas emissions, more must be done across sectors to adapt and to prepare for the impacts of climate change. Fortunately, our most powerful elected officials are already rising to the occasion.
A new poll shows state leaders need to offer a vision of a future transit system around which they can rally the public as they try to sell increases on taxes and fees for public transit.
The members of the real estate industry found themselves on opposite sides of a conversation on Beacon Hill Tuesday about how to come up with enough money to help Massachusetts communities prepare for climate change.
Gov. Charlie Baker’s and Boston Mayor Marty Walsh’s responses to the pair of MBTA derailments last week suggest both men still lack adequate plans to deal with the system’s biggest challenges.
The top two Democrats on Beacon Hill and Gov. Charlie Baker said early Tuesday evening that they had agreed to seek a three-month delay to the start of a payroll tax to fund paid family and medical leave benefits for all Massachusetts workers, and would look to “clarify” the program’s details.
Advocacy and business groups have called for a three-month delay in payroll taxes needed to fund the new paid family and medical leave program.
Amid reports that Wynn Resorts is talking about selling its $2.6 billion casino development in Everett to MGM Resorts, House Speaker Robert DeLeo on Monday said he plans to make sure the interests of the state, Springfield and Everett are front and center in any proposed sale.
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.
