Healey’s Housing Plan Is Long on Carrots, Short on Sticks
Can a public relations campaign talking up the need for new housing, coupled with some modest incentives, convince NIMBY suburbs to change their ways? Count me as skeptical.
Can a public relations campaign talking up the need for new housing, coupled with some modest incentives, convince NIMBY suburbs to change their ways? Count me as skeptical.
Attorney General Maura Healey and Salem Mayor Kim Driscoll began to put meat on the bones of their pledges to boost housing production and affordability Wednesday.
With the final match-up between Republican and Democratic gubernatorial candidates now clear, the stakes for the real estate industry in November’s general election are starting to come into focus.
State real estate officials are offering Salem State University’s south campus as a redevelopment opportunity including the potential for hundreds of multifamily housing units.