Tim Logan

Aug 5, 2024 | bostonglobe.com | Janelle Nanos |Tim Logan

SUPPORTED BY The On the Street series looks at the past, present, and future of neighborhoods in Greater Boston. WORCESTER — About 25 years ago, Allen Fletcher plopped down $110,000 to buy the old brick Ash Street School and got to work renovating the building into a home where his kids could come visit.

May 24, 2024 | bostonglobe.com | Tim Logan

Governor Maura Healey has appointed former Boston City Councilor Matt O’Malley to be her representative on the board of the Boston Planning & Development Agency, BPDA officials said Friday. O’Malley, who served six terms on the Council representing a district that includes much of Jamaica Plain, Roslindale, and West Roxbury, left City Hall in 2022 for a job as chief sustainability officer at Vicinity Energy, where he oversees the energy company’s decarbonization efforts.

Mar 22, 2024 | bostonglobe.com | Tim Logan

Mayor Michelle Wu’s administration on Friday announced $69 million in new city funding for affordable housing developments around Boston — including a few that have stirred opposition in their neighborhoods. “Collaborating closely with our community, we’re leveraging all available resources within the city to tackle Boston’s housing challenges,” said Wu, in a statement.

Feb 15, 2024 | bostonglobe.com | Tim Logan

But Milton is not a monolith, and the precinct-level results reported Wednesday night reveal stark divides in the town of 28,000 by geography, race, income, and where the proposed housing was to be located. Nuance abounds, but generally speaking the neighborhoods that voted “No” are whiter, more middle-class, and — crucially — farther from transit but also more impacted by the new zoning than the places that voted “Yes.” Here’s how it broke down.

Dec 21, 2023 | bostonglobe.com | Tim Logan

Planning a new apartment building is kind of like a math problem. Developers calculate an array of costs to help determine a rent that will generate enough revenue to make a project feasible to build. And they have some choices to make along the way that can alter that rent by hundreds of dollars a month. The Globe designed a calculator to show the trade-offs. The question: How do construction costs factor into the rent at a hypothetical 170-unit apartment building in Greater Boston?