The battle between preserving the past and affordable housing
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?
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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.