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There's a fast-growing network of new advocacy groups that have sprung up in suburbs across Greater Boston, whose members go to public meetings to say yes to more housing development, instead of no.

The MBTA Communities Act allows municipalities to build projects such as ground-floor retail spaces by right in the new multifamily districts.

Restrictive codes can severely limit housing development, but a new survey of mayors finds that few take them into account in their plans to address homelessness.

When the City of Boise began the once-in-a-generation massive effort to recraft its zoning code, officials knew that some fresh ideas for public outreach were key.

Discussing the affordable housing crisis with Ned Resnikoff: Chris Hayes podcast and transcript

One radical idea to solve America’s housing crisis.

Let’s start with the ice cream. On June 11 of last year, in the eighth hour of its weekly meeting, the San Francisco Planning Commission heard the case of Garden Creamery v. Matcha n’ More. The owners of the former ice cream shop alleged that the entrepreneurs behind the latter ice cream shop had lied on their planning application to open up in a long-vacant retail space in the city’s Mission District—and asked that the planners review their application. Advertisement So far, not much o...

Dive Brief: A majority of U.S. mayors acknowledge the racial disparities in how police treat residents, but are not embracing the radical changes called for in policing, according to the Menino Survey of Mayors published this week by the Boston University’s Initiative on Cities. The survey found that 68% of mayors believe Black people are treated worse by police compared to White people, while 69% believe the protests against police violence last summer were forces for positive change in th...