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BOSTON — Framing her new legislation as "historic" and "urgent," Gov. Maura Healey detailed her wide-ranging housing bill on Wednesday morning and speculated that its passage could provide a jolt for the 2024 construction season.

Supporters cheered a $4.1 billion housing bill Gov. Healey released Wednesday as a way to lower high living costs in Massachusetts.

Gov. Maura Healey unveiled a sweeping $4 billion bill Wednesday aimed at creating new homes and making housing more affordable.

As the state grapples with soaring housing costs, Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey unveiled a sweeping $4 billion bill Wednesday aimed at creating new homes and making housing more affordable.

A progressive state lawmaker is forging ahead with a bid to bring rent control back to Massachusetts — despite opposition from within his own movement.

What do Boston, Somerville, Salem and Northampton have in common?

The city’s antiquated zoning code will receive its first comprehensive update in six decades, following the release of a BPDA-commissioned report that highlighted how today’s regulations hinder residential development.

BOSTON — Moments after his pitch to revive rent control in November 2024 cleared a key procedural hurdle, Rep. Mike Connolly told an elevator crammed with reporters Wednesday that he was "incredibly grateful" to Attorney General Andrea Campbell for certifying the potential ballot question he had filed alongside local officials, tenant advocates and renters.

Despite AG Campbell's certification, an effort to put a rent control question before voters still faces logistical and legal obstacles.

Rent control advocates are left to decide whether the divisive, sure-to-be-expensive fight is one they want to wage right now.