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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Still getting trapped in Boston public housing elevators
The Housing Authority said it plans to start repairs in the coming months but doesn’t have enough money to address all the elevator needs. -
To build housing, Boston gives away land Black and brown families once owned
Boston has launched an ambitious project to help small, local, minority-owned developers build affordable housing on Dorchester vacant lots. But some of those lots were taken from Black and Latino families decades ago. -
MGH distributes $18M to support affordable housing in Greater Boston
The funding is part of a total of $62 million in community funds state-mandated in relation to a $2 billion expansion of MGH campus in downtown Boston. -
Residents say owner of Auburn mobile home parks has made life a 'living nightmare'
Tenants filed a class action lawsuit against Parakeet Communities, accusing the company of illegally deceiving and exploiting them. -
NH is getting older, but its housing supply isn't keeping up. In Rochester, two new projects are filling that need.
New Hampshire’s aging population and ongoing housing shortage are making it hard for seniors to find affordable homes that fit their needs.
