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Tenant Right to Purchase Bill Closer than Ever on Beacon Hill (opens the original)
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Apartments and townhouses in Boston’s South End. Photo by Camila Ulian | CommonWealth Beacon If the landlord of a large Massachusetts apartment building decides to sell it off, the tenants inside have few options other than hope the next owner doesn’t have plans to price them out. Occasionally a local community organization or city partnership will manage to step in to buy and preserve the building as affordable units. More often, the waves of the market wash the housing out of reach for longtim
Why Beacon Hill’s Housing Moves Pass Boston By (opens the original)
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Boston City Hall is shown in this file photo. The structure of state zoning law, dating back 70 years, gives the city a pass on recent statewide zoning reforms. Photo by Kate Kotlyar | CommonWealth Beacon / File Beacon Hill has taken repeated swings at getting cities and towns to build more housing over the last five years – sometimes waving carrots and sticks, sometimes making changes to state zoning law to allow more housing by fiat. But a quirk of state zoning that treats Boston differently i
Federal Housing Law Includes Modest Help for Mass. (opens the original)
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The Capitol Building in summer 2025. Congress last month passed its biggest housing policy bill in decades, called the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act. But Massachusetts’ housing leaders are skeptical it will have a big local impact. iStock photo For the first time in decades, the federal government is seriously wading back into housing policy, but most experts say its impact on high-cost Massachusetts, where leaders are desperate to see more housing built, will probably be modest. A new bipart
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