Linkage Fee News Today

The maintenance of existing affordable housing units often falls through the cracks as funding programs target new construction.

It would cost the city nearly $166 million to preserve 23 "at-risk, high priority" rental properties.

It would cost the city nearly $166 million to preserve 23 "at-risk, high priority" rental properties.

A window of opportunity may be opening for communities on the cusp of their own life sciences ecosystems as tenants expand out of Cambridge.

The state granted Watertown the right to impose a maximum linkage fee of $18 per SF on new development, following in the footsteps of Boston and Cambridge.

Earlier this month, the city of Denver (“City”) published the “Expanding Housing Affordability Proposed Policy Approach” (“Proposed Policy”). The Proposed Policy is in response to the...

Following comments at a Feb. 3 Council Subcommittee meeting by Mayor Carlo DeMaria directed to Councilor Gerly Adrien about her “laughing” on camera being a distraction, Adrien has taken to the airwaves in Boston and to the print media in Boston to condemn the comments, while Mayor DeMaria is ready to go on GBH Radio this week to defend his comments. Adrien published an op-ed in the Boston Globe on Feb. 8 regarding why, as a Black woman, she thought the mayor’s comments were inappropriate...

The City Council voted to enroll a Linkage Fee ordinance for residential and commercial properties after many years of discussion – and some rather intense negotiations over the last two weeks. The Council voted 10-1 Monday night to enroll the Linkage Fee ordinance, with Councilor Gerly Adrien voting against. Linkage Fees are a surcharge on, in this case, commercial and residential development, and for Everett, the money collected would only be able to go to funding affordable housing project...