Massachusetts homebuilders brace for tariffs to raise costs and slow housing production
Rising costs for construction materials could make it harder to address Massachusetts’ affordable housing shortage.
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Climate change drives new storm: Vineyarders consider leaving island over home insurance hikes
Locals share personal tales and agonizing choices tied to a worsening home insurance crisis in coastal Massachusetts. -
To fix Massachusetts’ housing crisis, we need to build. Here’s why that's hard.
Reasons why there’s a housing shortage? It takes a lot of time, people and money to create a new apartment building. -
Empty apartments across Massachusetts could be key to solving housing crisis
It’s usually a lot cheaper to put vacant housing units back on the market than to build new ones. -
Healey administration announces housing plan to lower costs, add supply
The plan anticipates expanding housing by 220,000 units. -
Why some Mass. homeowners got sticker shock over new property tax bills
There are "no villains and few heroes" when it comes to property taxes, Secretary of State Bill Galvin said.
Priced Out
Competition for housing has driven up home prices to record levels across Massachusetts. Some of the biggest gains have happened in communities where residents can least afford to pay more. GBH News is exploring the impact in the series Priced Out: The fight for housing in Massachusetts.
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Cambridge and Somerville renew push for triple-decker development, dense residential projects
Somerville is relying in part on a renewal of triple-unit projects to help it meet requirements of the MBTA Communities Act. -
An overlooked result of the housing crisis? Renters stuck in shoddy apartments.
Many tenants are settling for poor conditions because landlords aren’t maintaining their units and there’s nowhere else to go. -
DOJ accuses real estate software company of helping landlords collude to raise rents
The lawsuit says RealPage's algorithmic pricing software lets landlords effectively collude and set rents above market rate. The Texas-based company has denied the allegations. -
Tips to avoid apartment rental scams in Massachusetts
Scams on Facebook and Craigslist can lead to losing money — and even identity fraud. -
Massachusetts tenants may now get the chance to wipe their eviction records
Eviction sealing is part of the Massachusetts Legislature's newly passed housing bond bill.
