A new bipartisan housing law includes financing reforms and zoning incentives that could chip away at some of the many barriers to building in Massachusetts. But its flashiest provision won’t do much.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act would single out cities, like Boston, that aren’t pulling their weight in building housing.
Wouldn’t it be better to see our mad emperor channel some of his maniacal energy into the idea of tackling an increasingly dire housing crisis?
President Donald Trump is drastically shrinking the workforce and mission of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, eviscerating an agency created after the Great Recession with the goal of protecting Americans from fraud, abuse and deceptive practices.
It was one of the most telling exchanges of Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s debate with Republican challenger John Deaton. And it reveals a lot about why bolder action on housing costs has been so elusive.
An analysis of a new bill proposed by Sen. Elizabeth Warren would fund 273,000 new affordable housing units per year over 10 years, according to an analysis by Moody’s Analytics commissioned by Warren’s office and released Monday.
A Hyde Park senior housing development that saw its financing package upended by national politics appears to have come out on top, in the end.
U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren gave a strong endorsement Gov. Maura Healey’s housing plan, and said the federal government will need to “step up” to help the state address its housing affordability and availability crisis.
The heads of Wall Street’s biggest banks used an appearance on Capitol Hill on Wednesday to plead with senators to stop the Biden administration’s proposed changes to how banks are regulated.
Top executives at Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank largely avoided taking responsibility for their banks’ dramatic failures at a Senate hearing Tuesday, instead using their time to assign blame to events they said were largely out of their control.
A Republican majority in the U.S. House of Representatives doesn’t have to – and shouldn’t – be an obstacle to ending harmful laws that hobble legitimate marijuana businesses in Massachusetts, and the banks and credit unions that serve them.
After weeks of sounding the alarm about the downsides of interest rate hikes, U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren thinks the more modest approach the Federal Reserve took with its latest increase is still pushing the envelope “too far, too fast.”
With analysts expecting the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates again on Wednesday, Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Congressman Stephen Lynch are calling out the monetary policymakers for being too aggressive and putting the jobs of Americans at risk.
Several elected Democrats took aim at Gov. Charlie Baker on Wednesday after a scathing federal report was released documenting the MBTA’s safety deficiencies, pinning the blame on the outgoing Republican or his deputies ahead of corner-office turnover in January.
The fact that even the economy’s high priests cannot conduct themselves without creating the appearance of corruption shows a simple review of the Fed’s ethics guidelines will not be enough.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a former Harvard Law School professor, took sides over the weekend in the suddenly wide open Boston mayoral contest, endorsing City Councilor At-Large Michelle Wu’s campaign.
Who do you call when you realize you need to rein in money-laundering megabanks?
Massachusetts’ senior senator is calling for greater regulation of banks in the wake of new revelations that megabanks have continued to profit from money laundering and other illicit dealings despite warnings from regulators.
Massachusetts’ senior senator wants the interim head of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency to rescind his predecessor’s efforts to update the agency’s Community Reinvestment Act regulations.
Infestations of rats, mice and other rodents. Toxic black mold. Lead paint. These are the conditions found in much housing provided to our military personnel. And the Pentagon doesn’t appear to have it’s eye on the ball.
