Under Clark Ziegler, the Massachusetts Housing Partnership has become an important financial partner for housing developers and first-time homebuyers. Now, after 35 years he’s handing over the reins.
ADUs do hold some promise. But they can’t be built at the scale and affordability levels needed, nor in the right places, to be a load-bearing part of our strategy.
A new poll commissioned by a housing advocacy group says majorities of city residents don’t think Mayor Michelle Wu is doing enough to bring down the cost of housing.
Housing advocates say the design of Massachusetts’ highest-profile housing reform to date hobbled it from being able to create housing at scale – and might have hurt future moves.
Gov. Maura Healey claims we’re already almost halfway to hitting our 2035 housing goal. Is it real progress, or just happy talk from a governor facing reelection?
Josh Kraft tried to make housing affordability and development policy one of the centerpieces of his campaign. Did that resonate with voters?
A leading housing researcher is preparing to launch a ballot initiative on statewide legislation designed to expand so-called starter home production across Massachusetts.
Massachusetts’ 40Y “starter home statute” offers towns and cities a high-impact tool to create reasonably priced homes for young and old, alike.
Some top Democrats on Beacon Hill say they’re big fans of the book roiling the party’s intellectual circles with its critique of why blue states build too little housing.
Greater Boston’s high construction and capital costs have made most conversions prohibitively expensive. A solution needs state, municipalities and industry to collaborate.
Massachusetts is an incredible place to live. But the high costs of housing are making it harder to live here. Three bills before the Legislature would help.
Here in one of the wealthiest states in the wealthiest nation on Earth, a quiet crisis is unfolding as more and more older adults are losing their homes.
The attorney general said she will “push the town to continue to think about what happened yesterday” after Marblehead voters rejected new multifamily zoning required by the MBTA Communities Act in a special election Tuesday.
Even as Greater Boston sees increases in houses and condominiums for sale, the region has one of the largest housing deficits in the country.
While Massachusetts prepares to debate a small fraction of proposed housing reforms, states across the country are already implementing many of those same ideas.
At CHAPA’s new Housing Policy Action Center, we want to help support ideas through implementation, and make sure reforms are backed with on-the-ground experience and solid coalitions.
Building our way out of the housing crisis will take too long to help those suffering now. But rent control will halt the real long-term fix – building more homes – in its tracks.
Prices are ballooning, unit construction is stagnating, populations are declining and a housing crisis deserves to be treated as such, Barnstable County’s legislature said last week.
Encouraging and supporting development in this area of the market may be the key that unlocks the inventory problem that plagues Massachusetts.
The state will have to take “more muscular action” to facilitate construction of hundreds of thousands of new housing units in the next decade to meet demand, according to Newton Congressman Jake Auchincloss.
