One of the tools in the state’s housing-creation toolbox has been lying unused for more than two years, waiting for the state ...

The Healey administration is rolling out $8.7 million to Massachusetts cities and towns complying with the controversial MBTA zoning law while withholding previously committed grant funds from ...

Middleboro has sued the Healey administration due to what it says is a “great abuse of power” as the state withholds previously committed grant funding in a fight over the controversial MBTA ...

Cambridge, Massachusetts, enacted reforms last month that overturn century-old zoning regulations long embedded in American land-use practice. By establishing a generous citywide baseline for housing ...

The vote came after more than 1,097 housing units were proposed through the town's MBTA Communities zoning in a two-year span ...

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The MBTA Communities Act requires 177 towns and cities across Massachusetts to create at least one zoning district where multifamily housing is allowed by right. These communities are placed into ...

The MBTA Communities Act, deemed constitutional in January, requires that these communities create at least one zoning district near public transportation that allows multifamily housing by right.

But are they also compounding Massachusetts' deep housing crisis? A state-appointed commission focused on the state’s worsening housing shortage in fact identified single-family-only zoning ...

Several other states — from Oregon to Vermont — have recently banned single-family zoning. But it would be a change for “most” Massachusetts municipalities, which have at least some single ...