Walsh outlines plans to spur middle-income housing

BOSTON – Mayor Marty Walsh sketched out plans to push down the costs of building and owning housing to foster development of more units that middle-income Bostonians can afford in a speech Tuesday to the Boston Municipal Research Bureau. In his remarks, which touched on his economic development efforts over the past year, Walsh cited permits issued in 2015 for 4,194 middle-income housing units. He also described several pilot programs from the city's Housing Innovation Lab that focus on "the di

BOSTON – Mayor Marty Walsh sketched out plans to push down the costs of building and owning housing to foster development of more units that middle-income Bostonians can afford in a speech Tuesday to the Boston Municipal Research Bureau. In his remarks, which touched on his economic development efforts over the past year, Walsh cited permits issued in 2015 for 4,194 middle-income housing units. He also described several pilot programs from the city's Housing Innovation Lab that focus on "the di…