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Wu seeking to boost commercial tax rates in bid to spare homeowners from seeing higher bills.

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu tried to join a state pilot program to ban fossil fuels in new buildings. Now, the Wu administration is regrouping and rethinking its approach.

Incentives that could help a project meet certain financial requirements would be a welcome change, many developers said.

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The quest to preserve a community’s heritage can become a roadblock to building more affordable housing. Can development and caring for our past coexist?

State Representative Mike Connolly, a Cambridge Democrat, said he is suspending his campaign to gather 75,000 signatures to put a question on the ballot that would lift the 1994 law that bans rent control in Massachusetts.

Luxury high-rises are sprouting across the skyline. Why is Boston, amid a grave housing crisis, so much better at building homes for the wealthy than those in need?

Real estate and urban planning experts weigh in on whether Massachusetts' new climate change and housing policies will fuel out-migration.

The plan would increase the amount of affordable units required in new buildings, though developers say it would squelch construction.