Anthony Amore, the Republican candidate for state auditor, is pledging to hold suburbs’ feet to the fire for routinely rejecting affordable housing projects if he’s elected.
A proposal is moving through the State House to let Cambridge and several of the wealthiest Boston suburbs ban natural gas use in new buildings. It’s the wrong idea at the wrong time and could hurt housing production where it’s needed most.
A new report from the National Multifamily Housing Council hints at the costs created by the kind of strident local opposition that’s bedeviled new apartment and condominium projects across Massachusetts.
It’s the most ambitious attempt yet to grapple with the Bay State’s chronic housing shortage and the sky-high rents and prices it has fueled. But barely two months after its details hit the street, trouble is brewing.
What in the world is going on out in deepest blue Amherst? Plans for two new mixed-used projects in place of tired downtown retail plazas are drawing the ire of long-time residents.
Legislators on Beacon Hill urgently need to step in and clarify the rules for waterfront development in Massachusetts following a bombshell ruling in a dispute over a downtown Boston tower.
A common NIMBY practice involves filing lawsuits against developments with no real substantial claims, in order to string the process out so developers give up. But just recently, something emerged to address this problem.
A fundamental tension between outdated institutions that deliver progress on housing and the need for fundamental reform necessary for a more equitable future will underlie this race.
Should a high-priced pocket neighborhood be granted veto power over Boston City Hall’s longstanding push to get students out of triple-deckers and into dormitories?
There may be no region of the Bay State in more dire need of affordable housing than Cape Cod. Yet, Truro officials are putting a modest 39-unit project through the ringer.
The national examination of our country’s racist past has sparked growing interest and debate over dusty, decades-old zoning rules suburban communities in the Boston area have thrown up over the years to bar construction of apartments and affordable housing.
The president has exposed an unpleasant truth lurking just beneath the surface – and occasionally right in the open – about decades of resistance in Boston’s suburbs to the construction of new housing.
Newton is suddenly experiencing its largest commercial building boom in decades – all via mixed-use projects – and city officials say they would welcome more.
A handful of Greater Boston communities have become ground zero for the coronavirus pandemic in Massachusetts, thanks in part to the overcrowded conditions forced by too-high rent and too few rental units.
Super Tuesday was full of surprises, both good and bad. But one of the most intriguing was Newton’s decisive support for Northland’s large Upper Falls development.
Newton voters gave a proposed 23-acre project a decisive “yes” in a referendum held alongside Massachusetts’ presidential primary Tuesday night.
Amid a referendum fight that will see Newton residents vote on an 800-unit mixed-use project in a major business district, the Newton-Needham Regional Chamber is dialing up its support for the development.
The 2010s saw lots of talk about the desperate need for more housing in Greater Boston. So, with the decade officially at an end, just how did we do? Unfortunately, not too hot.
It’s a sad reality that an anti-development group in Newton has forced a city-wide referendum on a well-vetted project. The only democratic way forward is for city leaders to ensure the largest number of people take part.
Banning natural gas in new construction is a quick way to kill the economic miracle that has transformed the Boston area over the past half century from a rusting backwater to one of the planet’s top metros.
