Boston Sued Over Rent Control Advisors’ Emails
Landlord trade group MassLandlords has filed suit against the city of Boston for allegedly hiding emails between city officials and members of Mayor Michelle Wu’s Rent Stabilization Advisory Committee.
What Do North End Restaurants and Development Fees Have in Common?
What does Boston Mayor Michelle Wu’s decision to ban outdoor dining in the North End have to do with her increasingly controversial real estate policies? More than you might think.
Boston Officials Push Back on Rent Control Critiques
Top officials in Boston Mayor Michelle Wu’s administration pushed back against strong critiques of the mayor’s rent control proposal during a City Council committee hearing Wednesday.
GBREB Launches Anti-Rent Control Campaign
The oldest real estate trade organization in Boston has mobilized against Boston Mayor Michelle Wu’s proposal to cap the rate of rent increases in the city.
Wu Submits Rent Control Plan to City Council
After 15 months in office, Boston Mayor Michelle Wu on Monday finally unveiled a proposal to cap rent increases across the city at a maximum of 10 percent in high-inflation years, filing a multi-faceted rent control revival measure that will first go before the Boston City Council.
Wu: Rent Control Alone Won’t Solve Housing Crisis
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu pushed back against criticism of her proposal to slap a cap on rent increases city wide would harm housing production in an interview on GBH News’ “Boston Public Radio” Tuesday.
How the Healey Administration May Confront the Housing Crisis
Gov. Maura Healey understands the serious, long-term threats the housing crisis poses to Massachusetts. But as she looks to go even further than her current pledges, there are three policy ideas that will make the crisis worse, and which she should avoid.
Wu: Rent Hike Caps Would Counter ‘Dire, Destructive’ Market
Mayor Michelle Wu sees “no choice but to try” to revive rent control in Boston despite decades of failure by previous supporters of the policy, driven by high rents in the city.
Will Concessions in Wu’s Rent Control Plan Matter?
Mayor Michelle Wu’s top development deputies have sought to calm developers’ fears about her rent control proposal. But a thicket of obstacles awaits it on Beacon Hill, raising serious doubts that it could ever become law.
Report: Wu to Seek 6 Percent Rent Cap
Wu administration officials have presented a plan to a commission of tenant activists and real estate industry figures that would see a rent cap return to the city for the first time in nearly 30 years.
Five Things that Could Unsettle Real Estate’s New Year
With a new governor in charge and the real estate market in flux, 2023 could prove to be a pivotal year in Massachusetts’ efforts to rein in its ruinous cost of living.
Wu Confirms Rent Control Pitch Coming Next Year
Despite the uncertain environment facing the real estate world as 2023 looms, Boston Mayor Michelle Wu says she still plans to bring a rent control proposal to state legislators “their next legislative session opens up in 2023.”
Strategies for a Strong and Resilient Massachusetts
It has never been more expensive to produce housing in the commonwealth. Fortunately, the incoming Healey-Driscoll administration has three big opportunities to help.
Healey, Wu Talk Issues In First Sit-Down
Gov.-elect Maura Healey stuck to her campaign rhetoric Tuesday afternoon, alleging that rent control is “up to communities to decide” following her meeting with the concept’s biggest champion, Boston Mayor Michelle Wu.
Rent Stabilization Measures Win in Midterm Elections
Ballot measures in the U.S. to build more affordable housing and protect tenants from soaring rent increases were plentiful and fared well in last week’s midterm elections, a sign of growing angst over record high rents exacerbated by inflation and a dearth of homes.
This Month in History: Rent Control Abolished
A statewide ballot initiative spearheaded by Cambridge landlords did what years of local efforts couldn’t on Election Day in 1994: End decades of rent control in Boston, Cambridge and Brookline.
On the Front Lines of the Displacement Battle
Mike Leyba helps lead City Life Vida Urbana, the most vocal and prominent of Greater Boston’s tenant advocacy groups, a position that makes him a powerful voice in Boston’s debate over rent stabilization policies.
Rent Stabilization Is a False Hope
Applicants of color cannot compete in a market made even more restrictive by rent control. Let us create more rental housing to solve both high rents and housing inequality.
How Will Boston’s Rent Stabilization Shake Out?
Other cities’ experiments with “rent control 2.0” offer clues to how Boston Mayor Michelle Wu may try to fulfil a key campaign promise while keeping developers on-side.
Rent Control Is Not the Answer to Our Housing Crisis
Affordable and middle-income workforce housing is critical to the region’s competitiveness, and NAIOP believes that solutions focused on housing production and expanding rental assistance are a better focus for policymakers.
