A progressive backlash against New York’s powerful real estate industry could provide a preview of things to come here in Massachusetts, where activists are increasingly turning their wrath on developers and landlords.
The real outrage is this: In the midst of a regional and national housing crisis, NIMBY jerks in upscale communities like Weston are hell bent on demonizing multifamily housing and the people who live in it.
With Thanksgiving just days away, it’s time for our annual turkey shoot, where we let loose a healthy dose of verbal buckshot on everything from projects gone wrong to spineless pols and NIMBY neighbors.
Municipal elections across Greater Boston yesterday served as de facto forums on development, among other issues, and voters rewarded both pro- and anti-development candidates.
You reap what you sow. And after driving up rents and prices to insane levels thanks to decades of blocking any and all new residential construction, NIMBY homeowners in Massachusetts and across the country have succeed in sparking an extreme counter-reaction.
A debate unfolding in Cambridge in recent months over a proposal to make affordable housing easier to build by right in the city shows how important it is that the legislature act on Gov. Charlie Baker’s modest Act to Promote Housing Choices.
As frightening as the prospect of a rent control proposal on Beacon Hill may be to some the issue is a red herring that threatens to distract everyone from efforts to get Gov. Charlie Baker’s Act to Promote Housing Choice passed as soon as possible.
Careful, dear. Your MAGA is showing.
The crazy run-up in real estate values that is steadily driving middle- and lower-income families out South Boston will only intensify if the 1,300 new condominiums and apartments proposed for the old Edison site are sacrificed at the behest of anti-development cranks and housing haters.
It is no badge of honor that Boston continues to be the third-most expensive rental market in the country. In our area, home values have little relationship to area wages and employers and entrepreneurs are hamstrung in attracting workers who have choices to move to attractive and less costly housing markets.
Would a President Warren be the cure for our country’s increasingly messed up housing market? Sen. Elizabeth Warren has finally made official what anyone with half a brain has long suspected – she’s eyeing a run for the White House.
Perhaps not surprising to anyone who has worked in the industry or attended a commercial real estate event, the profession remains overwhelmingly white and male.
Gas prices shot up 73 percent in 1973, the year OPEC lowered the boom on the U.S. economy. Pumps went dry and irate drivers queued up in long lines at service stations; some resorted to stealing precious fuel from their neighbors’ cars at night.
The YIMBY revolution has finally arrived in Boston’s suburbs.
Last week’s groundbreaking at St. James Place, three blocks from the MBTA’s Porter subway and commuter rail station in Cambridge, is a “feel good” real estate story: a car wash and parking lot replaced by an attractive mixed-use development
A relatively small group of NIMBY homeowners has paralyzed the housing market in the suburbs of Boston, choking off new construction and driving up prices and rents.
From the Back Bay and South Boston to the commuter suburbs on Route 128 and I-495, home prices in the Boston area and across Massachusetts are smashing one record after another.
It’s got to be tough to be head of your local trade group, whether it’s representing retailers, construction contractors or, in the case of David Begelfer, real estate developers.
NIMBY suburbanites, rejoice: President Donald Trump has your back. The Trump administration just took a big step toward gutting a noble Obama-era initiative, one that required cities and towns across the country to submit plans for tackling racial segregation and inequality in housing.
“Yes to new things! No to consequences!”
