Andrew Brinker
Housing Reporter at The Boston Globe
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1 week ago |
bostonglobe.com | Andrew Brinker
This squat building at 2400 Mass. Ave. in Cambridge is set to be replaced with a 60-unit condominium building, but the project is stalled amid difficult financing.John Tlumacki/Globe StaffBut housing is so expensive to build right now that some developers say that this so-called inclusionary housing requirement may be backfiring, making otherwise profitable projects too costly to build and stopping them before shovels hit the ground.
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2 weeks ago |
bostonglobe.com | Andrew Brinker
It is no secret that Massachusetts has an affordable housing shortage. People of even modest means struggle to make rent here, and families are being rapidly priced out of the state. But how bad is the problem, really? According to one new report this week, the state only has enough affordable housing for 32 percent of the 652,000 low-income renter households who need it. In other words, 441,000 families in Massachusetts who qualify for affordable housing can’t access it.
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3 weeks ago |
bostonglobe.com | Andrew Brinker
Home prices in Greater Boston continued their ever-upward trajectory last month. The median-priced single-family house in the region sold for $930,000 in March, according to the Greater Boston Association of Realtors, up 3.3 percent from the same month last year. So, yes, buying here is still hard.
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3 weeks ago |
bostonglobe.com | Andrew Brinker
EDGARTOWN — Denise Schepici steps over a freshly laid curb — the concrete still wet — and through a newly constructed wooden door frame. Inside, there is still sawdust on the ground and an incomplete wooden banister framing a staircase to the second floor of this soon-to-be-finished building. The sound of workers nailing down siding echoes through an open, unfinished window.
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4 weeks 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.
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For those following MBTA Communities state housing law: In new emergency regs filed today after SJC ruling last week, the state offers an olive branch to Milton and other noncompliant towns, extending their deadline to pass zoning to July 14. For now, Milton has another chance.
