With Baker Out, Housing Needs a Champion
With Gov. Charlie Baker and Lt. Gov. Karyn Polito out of the picture for the 2022 governor’s race, we implore a candidate to seize their mantle as “the housing ticket.”
With Gov. Charlie Baker and Lt. Gov. Karyn Polito out of the picture for the 2022 governor’s race, we implore a candidate to seize their mantle as “the housing ticket.”
Gov. Charlie Baker, a two-term Republican who at his peak was one of the most popular governors in the country, will not seek a third term, throwing the 2022 race for governor wide open.
For-profit and nonprofit developers looking to use any of 10 state grant programs as part of their financing packages will now be able to find them all in the same place.
Gov. Charlie Baker and Lt. Gov. Karyn Polito unveiled a $275 million COVID-19 economic recovery package to generate economic growth amidst the COVID-19 pandemic Friday morning. The legislation includes a long-stalled zoning reform.
Two days after telling some types of businesses how they could reopen after a prolonged public health closure, Gov. Charlie Baker on Wednesday emphasized that there’s no need for any company or religious institution uncomfortable with the idea of reopening to come back to work right away.
The first wave of businesses shuttered by the COVID-19 pandemic could begin to reopen around May 18 if public health data continues to trend in a positive direction, Gov. Charlie Baker said.
Are you sure May 18 isn’t a magical date? What about this yuge rabbit in my hat? And this tremendous magic wand?
So far, it looks like efforts by Gov. Charlie Baker and Lt. Gov. Karyn Polito to orchestrate a measured march toward reopening the state’s economy are leaning away from Sousa and towards Stravinsky.
The state’s goal is to have some business reopen May 18, pending the completion of new guidelines, Gov. Charlie Baker said.
Employers need at least 10 days to prepare for the state’s reopening the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce said, and flagged testing, child care and transportation as the three major barriers to reopening amidst the COVID-19 pandemic.
After spending the last few days hearing from groups representing more than a million workers, Lt. Gov. Karyn Polito on Monday cautioned against viewing May 18 as a “magical date” on which the state’s businesses will fully bounce back into operation following weeks of mandated closures.
Gov. Charlie Baker hinted Tuesday that he plans to convene a group of public health, academic and business leaders to assemble a “thoughtful framework” for how Massachusetts might be able to resume more normal life.
A new health science research and development facility at Worcester Polytechnic Institute opened yesterday with a snip of scissors held by Housing and Economic Development Secretary Mike Kennealy, school President Laurie Leshin and other officials.
While Gov. Charlie Baker said Monday his administration has noted “tremendous” interest from real estate developers in his proposal to sell off Back Bay’s Hynes Convention Center for redevelopment, legislative leaders appear reluctant to jump on board the bandwagon.
Flanked by housing and economic development officials whose tenures in state government date back to 2004, Lt. Gov. Karyn Polito called on lawmakers to pass the Baker administration’s housing production bill in the next 11 weeks.
Massachusetts is pouring an additional $86 million into creating 260 new workforce housing apartments and 500 homes for moderate-income, first-time buyers.
Gov. Charlie Baker and Lt. Gov. Karyn Polito made a stop in Salem Friday as part of a statewide campaign to drum up support for a bill that would make it easier for municipalities to approve housing construction projects.
Gov. Charlie Baker on Friday afternoon declared a state of emergency in the wake of a series of gas fires and explosions in the Merrimack Valley, handing over control of the response to Eversource in place of the local utility that Lawrence Mayor Dan Rivera said had been “hiding from the problem.”