Before joining the chorus of promoters of “affordable housing,” one might want to consider the meaning of that term, and its ...

A two-year permit extension in recent state legislation throws multifamily developers a lifeline – but no silver bullet to ...

Bay Staters’ ability to afford their first home is getting worse and worse. Elliot Schmiedl is the point person for one of the newest attempts to reverse that.

A quarter-century separates Boston Mayor Michelle Wu’s controversial soccer palace plans and the city’s last major sports stadium battle. Yet despite the passage of time, there is a striking ...

It seems like so long ago, though only a mere four and a half years have passed. In the wake of George Floyd’s murder, financial institutions and other companies everywhere announced new or renewed ...

As Eastern Bank approaches five years since it de-mutualized and became a publicly traded company, it continues to be an outspoken advocate through the Eastern Bank Foundation. It also reaps some ...

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu has been a big cheerleader for the companies and businesses that drive the city’s economy to bring their workers back to the office full-time. In a speech to the city business ...

The city of Cambridge handed affordable housing developers a powerful tool by rezoning the entire city to allow multifamily projects that reserve all units for income-restricted households. In a city ...

For as long as Greater Boston has faced a housing shortage, we’ve heard that our challenge was exacerbated by the fact that, unlike many sprawling Sun Belt metropolitan areas, there is little land ...

Along with the price of eggs and gasoline, the high cost of housing was very much on the minds of voters in the recent election cycle, according to exit polls. Frustrations boiled over at the monthly ...

When lawmakers come back to Washington early next year to tackle the country’s housing crisis, they will argue over various proposals to fix affordability, high mortgage rates and the lack of ...

Much ink has been spilled over the high sticker prices and low availability of housing in Greater Boston. Formerly blue-collar towns are now rife with million-dollar homes, and the cost of living in ...