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Boston can’t force the Fed to lower interest rates, but we should pursue an approach similar to what Cambridge has done: increase capacity across the whole city (not just small areas) and combine that with policies that protect affordable housing developments from getting targeted by stupid lawsuits

ABC’s all-star housing panel, 6 pm tomorrow at the Senior Center, 806 Mass Ave in Central Sq, also has a Zoom option! us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

#cambridgehousing #massachusettshousing #massachusettszoning #yimbyevent | National Zoning Atlas Next week in Cambridge, Mass, catch NZA geospatial analyst Jake Gilbert alongside Massachusetts housing heavy-hitters Amy Dain, Vincent Rollet, and John Infranca for a wonderful conversation about the...

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The point of this effort by Councillor Zusy is to kill all green multifamily inclusionary homes, which would increase Cambridge’s carbon emissions and send rents through the roof.

Cambridge City Council has followed this data and taken steps to increase the supply of homes and decrease rents. Anyone telling you otherwise is selling you a bill of goods.

So well deserved!!

Expanding Multifamily Development: Supporting New or Emerging Multifamily Developers Multifamily real estate development is vital to addressing the nation’s housing affordability crisis. Our research examines barriers that smaller and newer h…

Multifamily real estate development faces big hurdles—high costs, regulations and more—limiting housing supply and fueling the #housing crisis.

Urban’s new #research compares developers in 10 #cities, highlights small and emerging firms, and explores a philanthropic initiative.

Harvard just beat Trump in court. It wasn't just their lawyers. It was us: students, faculty, alumni, and the community writ large.

This moment feels overwhelming. We can't stop every attack, but we can slow them down and protect our own. That's the work and I need your vote to keep doing it.

The Color of Law is one of the most important books ever written about redlining and exclusionary zoning.

The best way to save Harriet Jacobs’s home: Pair preservation with housing - The Boston Globe Harriet Jacobs’s life and legacy embody dignity, security, and justice. Expanding access to safe, affordable homes in Cambridge carries that same moral weight today.

Good take here by Mayor Simmons, Vice Mayor McGovern, & Councilors Siddiqui and Sobrinho-Wheeler.

The project will use the hotel revenue to finance restoration & preservation while opening the site to the public & building 50 units of much-needed housing with 20% affordable. It's a win-win-win.

Reminder: ABC City Council Candidate Forum is next Wednesday, 6 pm!

"The best way to honor Jacobs is not by allowing her home to languish with makeshift repairs, as some have suggested, but by securing its future while advancing Cambridge’s values of dignity, inclusion and shelter."

Americans Spend 42% Of Their Income On Housing — And They Want Drastic Changes New survey: Half of Americans say housing costs are too high, and 42% of parents worry their kids won’t be able to afford their childhood neighborhoods.

Housing affordability remains a huge concern—why Cambridge and Massachusetts need to listen to residents’ needs and build more homes!

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Great way to end this wasteful litigation and spend the money on the shelter and services instead!

Concerned about housing prices? Join us for A Better Cambridge’s City Council forum and find out what each candidate plans to do about it!

The only fight in the actual article is the losing one to fundraise to preserve the building (as opposed to the only viable plan that the Historical Commission and local NIMBYs rejected last night).

We'll see whether I can stick it out to the end, but I'm remote attending the CHC meeting on 17 Story St. Devs propose to relocate & preserve the historic Harriet Jacobs House on the same site, and demolish a 3-story building, to build a hotel and 50 apartments. Harvard Sq Conservation District.

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.

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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

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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.”
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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...