
Kraft Hits the Mark with Critique of Wu’s Housing Policies
The mayor’s defense of her housing policies ignores the experience of other cities. They dramatically hiked affordability requirements, only to see housing production collapse.
The mayor’s defense of her housing policies ignores the experience of other cities. They dramatically hiked affordability requirements, only to see housing production collapse.
Josh Kraft is spotlighting Boston’s struggle to accelerate housing development in his campaign to unseat incumbent Mayor Michelle Wu.
With Mayor Michelle Wu planning to seek reelection, Josh Kraft, who has been weighing a run and has already set up a campaign account, will hold an 11 a.m. event Tuesday in Dorchester to declare his candidacy.
Cambridge City Councilors are set to back a landmark change eliminating single-family zoning to boost housing production across the city after a preliminary vote yesterday.
Greater Boston communities’ drawn-out land-use permitting inhibits development and further drives up some of the nation’s highest apartment rents and home prices, according to an analysis by The Pioneer Institute.
Developers pulled building permits for just 82 new Boston units in the last two months, the worst fall showing in nearly a decade. The cost of city policies is partly to blame.
Massachusetts residents think housing is the most important issue at the state level, and large majorities support policy reforms that lawmakers for years have not embraced, a new poll found.
I’m often asked by area business owners and residents, “What can we do to support solutions to our housing issues in our own communities?” The answer sometimes surprises people in its simplicity.
Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez rose to national prominence with her Green New Deal. Now, she’s turning her attention to the nation’s housing crisis with similar fanciful thinking.
What if we could solve the affordable housing problem of Massachusetts towns with a few strokes of a (free) lawyer’s pen? A pro-business legal group has a new idea and an offer that Bay State local governments cannot refuse.
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.
The Fed’s long-awaited cut comes too late to save the housing market, which is now mired in what is likely to be a prolonged slump that could take years to climb out of.
Vice President Kamala Harris is zeroing in on high food and housing prices as her campaign previews an economic policy speech Friday in North Carolina.
Executives with Equity Residential and AvalonBay told stock analysts that low rates of housing production in Massachusetts let them raise rents nearly 5 percent year-over-year.
An analysis of a new bill proposed by Sen. Elizabeth Warren would fund 273,000 new affordable housing units per year over 10 years, according to an analysis by Moody’s Analytics commissioned by Warren’s office and released Monday.
The MBTA owns prime locations for real estate development but efforts to build on them have a history of lengthy delays and missed opportunities. Could that be changing?
ULI Boston/New England is partnering with three communities north of Boston to enhance both their urban mobility and their supply of new housing.
Perceptions that new housing equals a flood of new students aren’t new. What is new is the misinformation about it in debates around MBTA Communities compliance.
A YIMBY tide is rolling across the nation. And the only question for Massachusetts is whether it will ride it willingly or get dragged along kicking and screaming in its wake.