Justin S.

In case you didn’t spend six hours with the Historical Commission last night, @jfsheehan.bsky.social has you covered!

Find out if the Commission said yes to $16-17 million in subsidized inclusionary housing for Cambridge families!

Tesla brand damage revealed: Consumers rank its ethics and character near the very bottom of new Axios Harris poll Even scandal-hit UnitedHealth Group and the U.K. oil company behind the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe are viewed in a better light.

—Brand damage to leading manufacturer fortune.com/2025/05/22/e...

This study shows why Cambridge’s new multifamily zoning is so important for decreasing housing costs!

How a $35 million home in Cambridge gets its price tag - The Boston Globe High-end buyers will pay top dollar for the prestige of an address near Harvard, MIT, and all the city offers.

👀Some of these Cambridge residents opposed ending exclusionary zoning. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/30/m...

Rent is way too high in Cambridge, but some candidates want to go back to banning apartment buildings in certain neighborhoods—let’s keep moving forward and put hundreds more dollars a month in the pockets of every renter!

Proud to have helped one blue city that is getting it right! Please donate now to ensure our progress is not rolled back and we can continue to get it right! #CambMA #mapoli

bsky.app/profile/caro...

We just need to shout it from the rooftops!

Helping cities evolve MIT Economics graduate student Vincent Rollet studies how housing, regulation, and politics interact to shape the future of our cities.

“These policy changes can benefit a lot of people, by reducing the housing prices a bit for everyone, but individual people won’t know it. This makes collective action very hard.”
news.mit.edu/2025/helping...

Rollet cites Cambridge’s recent zoning reform allowing the construction of six-story buildings as a case in point.

A lot more support for the wisdom of Cambridge’s multifamily zoning reform—in particular, the fact that the biggest benefits redound to the lowest earners in the form of lower rents.

Not that the locations are comparable, but Cambridge Crossing has been seeking and receiving permission to build less parking than it was originally mandated to do. www.cambridgema.gov/-/media/File...

No, they have to go through it first. “All projects subject to the PTDM Ordinance must have an approved PTDM plan before they can obtain all permits, including Special Permit, building permit, occupancy permit, etc.”

This is the state MEPA process, the City process hasn’t even started yet afaik

They have to go through Cambridge’s Parking and Traffic Demand Management process. www.cambridgema.gov/CDD/Transpor...

I hate to say it, but these are stronger housing measures than we’ve passed in MA. Let’s change that, @massgovernor.bsky.social @kimdriscollma.bsky.social!!

Boston rents are up like 30% in the last four years, residents are desperate for new housing to bring housing costs down!

Just make it temporary and have the commission return when 3/4 of states have adopted nonpartisan redistricting

a sign that says vote for affordable housing is above a house Alt: a sign that says vote for affordable housing is above a house

What has the #CambMA @abciepac.org‬ Pro-Housing City Councilors Accomplished?

Check it out www.abciepac.org/aho-accompli...
and while you are at it, please consider donating to and/or volunteering for ABC IEPAC so we can ensure our progress is not rolled back.

At least we’re not Mass. Sometimes aff rental developments there will have four overlapping accessibility design guidelines: EOHLC, Fair Housing, UFAS, and MA’s bespoke accessibility code: 521 CMR.

Launching the Massachusetts Zoning Atlas Join John Infranca of Suffolk University Law School and Sara Bronin of the National Zoning Atlas for the launch of the Massachusetts Zoning Atlas, the first resource to comprehensively visualize zonin...

A week from today. Join us for the launch of the Massachusetts Zoning Atlas www.wgbh.org/forum-networ...

It’s official —

Forced broker fees are going to be a thing of the past in Massachusetts!

BIG NEWS: I’m getting rid of broker’s fees for renters in Massachusetts 💸

From now on, whoever hired the broker will be on the hook for the bill. Because it should be that simple.

To bring down the cost of housing, we need to build. My team is using every tool we have to get shovels in the ground across Massachusetts.

Because we cut taxes and passed the Affordable Homes Act, thousands of affordable, accessible units are coming to South Boston.

2025 in State-Level Parking Reform: Lessons Learned · Zoom · Luma

On July 21, catch WNN member leaders from @shelterwf.bsky.social‬ and Housing Action NH with @parkingreform.org‬ to dig into lessons learned from parking reform work in 2025! RSVP here:

Almost all of which is probably sadly illegal under Boston’s current zoning!

Too tall, no setbacks, where’s the parking?!?!

The Freedom Trail leads you on a path of a city free from zoning rules, permitting delays, and public meetings. Maybe urban planning needs a revolution too.

The veto of HB5002 a 🧵1/ a lot

If only we gathered a group of municipal leaders and both sides of the aisle, and advocates and listened to experts . . . Spent six months on the Majority Leader’s Round Table learning how best to move forward in the 2nd most constrained housing market in the country.

ABC tables at the River Festival and Cambridge Local First Block Party · Jun 17 – 21 📸 Shared album · Tap to view!

A Better Cambridge's River Fest table where kids were able to build cities and then destroyed them! What fun!!

#CambMA #housing

photos.app.goo.gl/TzwQGjkLkV8V...

@kimdriscollma.bsky.social, we can’t let CT get ahead of MA in housing policy!!

Love this so much!!

Most Mass. voters want more housing, poll finds - The Boston Globe A new poll from a pro-housing group found the majority of the state’s voters even favor new housing development over other considerations, like preserving the character of neighborhoods.

Our statewide partner @abundanthousingma.org commissioned this poll that adds further empirical support to what we’ve long suspected: the loudest voices against housing production are the definition of a vocal minority. Let’s get building! www.bostonglobe.com/2025/05/16/b...