A housing crisis of this magnitude requires a number of bold policy ideas. It also requires us to work together as communities to support people in need of housing.
Gov. Maura Healey’s Affordable Homes Act addresses the housing crisis in several useful ways, but leaves out repealing a statewide ban on rent control.
It will take a long time and a lot of money to build the 200,000 units officials believe Massachusetts needs. Gov. Maura Healey’s proposed Affordable Homes Act will cost $4 billion and expects to produce 40,000 homes over the next five years.
Hornby’s campaign focuses on issues that are hot-button topics in Somerville, including climate change policy, transportation, economic justice and education.
Public meetings this week look at making more housing and making it more affordable, a decision on a plan to reclaim the fenced-off Jerry’s Pond, room for small tech at Porter Square and planning for the Massachusetts Avenue of 2040.
Most Cambridge City Council candidates support rent stabilization as a tool for protecting the city’s tenants, voters learned at a Tuesday political forum.
Public meetings this week look at the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, rent control legislation, new housing on Broadway and getting advice for sustainability.