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Massachusetts legislature

Housing protections needed, low-income residents say

BOSTON – For Holly Marcus, the fear of having to leave her North End neighborhood after nearly 40 years is beginning to feel real. Marcus was one of dozens of Massachusetts residents who showed up at the State House on Tuesday morning to testify for a proposal that would prevent landlords

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Eviction proposal pits landlords against tenant group

BOSTON – Hundreds of tenant advocates and wary property owners crammed into a Boston City Council public hearing Monday to weigh in on a proposal that has the two groups at odds: Renters say it would create safeguards against eviction; landlords say it would slap them with thinly disguised rent controls.

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Development eyed for Boston site near Chinatown, Leather District

BOSTON – Planning to move state highway offices from their perch above the central artery tunnels near Boston's South Station, city and state officials said Tuesday that they want to redevelop the 5.5 acre site, potentially to create affordable housing and new business space. The site sits at

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Boston agency OKs affordable housing, school projects

BOSTON – Plans to create 95 affordable housing units won approval Thursday from the Boston Redevelopment Authority, along with an expansion of Dorchester's Epiphany School, a 127-room hotel in East Boston and a new Harvard Business School auditorium in Allston. In the city's Chinatown area, two nonprofit

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Airbnb may model Bay State strategy on winning San Francisco campaign

San Francisco voters rejected a proposal to rein in Airbnb and other online rental services that have siphoned business from hotels in major cities around the nation, and the company may use its campaign there to model strategies for other markets where restrictions have been proposed, including Boston. In part,

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Airbnb debate on Beacon Hill may be swayed by San Francisco vote

San Francisco voters got the chance Tuesday to rein in Airbnb and similar online services that have pressured housing costs and siphoned business from hotels around the nation, as a ballot measure in the city by the bay sought to limit short-term residential rentals. The outcome could influence debate in

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There goes the neighborhood: Obama’s vision for our cities and towns

Critics deride it as government-backed social engineering, a policy that effectively spells the end of local control over zoning laws. Supporters praise it as a means of racially and economically diversifying America's suburbs and of ensuring, in the words of President Barack Obama, that "a person'

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Boston housing starts on the rise

FROM BOSTON MAYOR MARTIN J. WALSH'S OFFICE At the end of June, Boston had reached $1.65 billion in housing starts for calendar year 2015. This pace is 138 percent higher than the $692 million then at the same time last year.