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"As additions to the toolbox go, the MBTA Communities Act has barely been removed from its packaging," writes one housing proponent. "Zoning is not a housing production program, but it is a necessary step," writes another.

"This legislation was an attempt to solve a well-documented pressing problem: We need more, and more dense, housing," writes one reader, while a Milton resident writes that the problem is the accessibility of the T and its woeful service.

Read Governor Maura Healey's first State of the Commonwealth speech, alongside analysis from Globe reporters.

See how several key choices made by developers in any new housing development influence the cost of a project, and the rents it needs to pencil out.

Many forces drive the housing crisis here, and the sky-high cost of construction is one of the most powerful.

The end of rent control three decades ago helped push many working people out of a Fenway apartment building — and out of Boston. Their stories speak to one of the causes of the current housing crisis, and to the increasing demands that rent caps return.

Let’s curb limited liability corporations and private equity, at least in regard to residential real estate, more aggressively than just requiring full transparency.

The scaled-back plan affects Newton Centre, Newton Highlands, Waban, West Newton, Newtonville, and Auburndale.

One in five homes sold in Greater Boston from 2004 to 2018 went to private investors driving up the cost of once relatively affordable housing, a new report found.

California is trying to tackle its housing crisis by rethinking the traditional single-family home. Why isn’t Massachusetts?