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The two Republicans running for governor of Massachusetts have tapped their business connections for tens of thousands of ...
In a new report, Massachusetts' Commission on Unlocking Housing Production is calling for a ban on single-family zoning, no more parking minimums and reduced lot size requirements, among other ...
Teachers, police officers, firefighters and other workers live in overcrowded and substandard housing, or even in their cars ...
Massachusetts has enacted big changes to its broker fee rules, aiming to shift financial burdens off of renters. Here’s what ...
The Boston Globe Massachusetts enacted its most ambitious housing law in decades. Now the hard part is enforcing it. The commuter rail station in Waltham.
But Massachusetts is one of four states — alongside New York, Connecticut and Hawaii — that also has state funded housing. And the Massachusetts system is by far the biggest state funded ...
According to the National Low Income Housing Coalition, Massachusetts needs more than 175,000 housing units for its lowest-income residents. Activists and some local officials argue that when the ...
Why does Massachusetts struggle with affordable housing? 03:41 By Chris Tanaka, WBZ-TV. BOSTON -- Massachusetts routinely ranks as one of the most expensive states to live in, and housing is the ...
The Massachusetts Department of Housing and Community Development, or DHCD, estimates there is roughly $3.7 billion worth of replacements to roofs and bathrooms and other costly systems.
Massachusetts has fined almost every local housing authority in the state for keeping subsidized apartments empty without a good reason. The state levied $4.1 million in fines against 212 agencies ...
The typical home in Massachusetts now costs six times more than the average household’s annual income. In Greater Boston, it is more like seven times more.