In an update to its landmark 2019 study, researchers at the Metropolitan Area Planning Council say excessive local parking requirements are continuing to drive up housing costs.
Cambridge and California took big steps last week to shed mandated parking minimums in transit-connected areas to help build more reasonably-priced housing and cut carbon emissions.
The pending blanket elimination of minimum parking requirements is expected to remove hurdles to affordable housing production in Boston.
When the conversation turns to the nation’s affordable housing crisis, the talk is usually about ever-higher house prices and the cost of regulations.
As it turns out, three drivers of high housing costs are pitting local control against regional and state-wide transit: zoning, household size restrictions and parking requirements.
