Andrew Brinker

1 week ago | bostonglobe.com | Andrew Brinker

People like Graham Boylan and his partner are supposed to be able to settle in Boston. They’re both engineers. They make six-figure salaries, and Boylan works for a prominent technology company. And yet, every time they have searched for a home to buy over the past several years, they have come up empty-handed. Their first and biggest hurdle is the region’s crushing house prices, which would see them pay $1 million for a small condominium in or around Cambridge, where they’d like to live.

3 weeks ago | bostonglobe.com | Andrew Brinker

The pressure was tightening on Burhan Azeem. Azeem, a 28-year-old, second-term Cambridge city councilor, was working to advance a controversial proposal he hoped could solve the city’s deep housing shortage: allowing six-story multifamily buildings anywhere in Cambridge. Opposition from some neighborhood groups was growing, and he needed to swing the momentum. Azeem decided to play small-ball, visiting community groups to make his case.

3 weeks ago | bostonglobe.com | Andrew Brinker

The Town of Middleborough Friday dropped its lawsuit against the state over the controversial MBTA Communities law after agreeing to expand an existing zoning district allowing multifamily housing to meet the law’s requirements. The deal between Middleborough and the state came after the town last month sued the state housing office for an exemption from MBTA Communities, the 2021 law that mandates cities and towns served by the T make it easier to build multifamily housing.

1 month ago | bostonglobe.com | Andrew Brinker

Roughly 10 minutes of searching and two calls to the building owner later, he finally discovers apartment 41A, at the bottom of an outdoor staircase that is hidden by a stand of bushes. The current occupants of unit 41A sit awkwardly in their bedrooms as Macdonald leads the students around the basement apartment. The place smells vaguely of cat urine, and there is a network of pipes running across the ceiling that may, or may not, transport the building’s sewage.

1 month ago | bostonglobe.com | Andy Rosen |Aaron Pressman |Diti Kohli |Dana Gerber |Andrew Brinker |Sean Murphy

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