After reducing the project size last year in an attempt to appease neighbors, developer City Realty Group will pursue approval of a 738-unit development in Brookline under the state’s Chapter 40B zoning law.
An exhaustive inventory of state properties identified more than three dozen sites totaling 450 acres that will be offered to multifamily housing developers.
The regulatory biggest changes in decades seek to push projects away from the waterfront and could raise costs for inland housing construction.
A recent BU study revealed an alarming increase in the number of residents fleeing Massachusetts thanks to housing costs. But lawmakers are overlooking a key way to fix that.
In the Cape Cod market, and across Massachusetts, inventory and interest rates are likely to continue to be the biggest challenges encountered by both buyers and sellers.
It’s a policy that can help downtowns be busier and healthier, assist cities with revenue and reduce the concentration of poverty by increasing their overall supply of housing.
The House on Monday advanced a economic development bill that invests $350 million in hospitals, $100 million in port development, $175 million in housing development and more than $3 billion in other areas, all while rolling out a series of one-time tax rebates and permanent tax breaks.
The process for approving new housing development in communities across Massachusetts is “skewed toward an older, white population with the greatest interest in obstructing new development,” according to a new report assembled by two Boston University researchers and released Wednesday by The Boston Foundation.
