Some go as high as several acres—87,000 square feet! The Starter Home ballot initiative seeks address this very issue—sign up to gather signatures! www.abundanthousingma.org/weekend-of-a...

Mid-Cambridge has successfully used their exclusionary Neighborhood (Historic) Conservation District to block multifamily infill and affordable housing for decades, so no surprise really. www.cambridgema.gov/-/media/File...

🚨 Congress could vote on the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act as soon as TOMORROW! 🚨 Visit the link to tell your representative to support the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act TODAY: https://pulse.pulse.ly/1ngqhvn3lc

San Diego fell from 5th to 12th most expensive rental market by building more multifamily housing per capita than any other California city. This is what happens when you actually build. The lesson isn't complicated. www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2026/05/13/s...

NEW 📣: Applications are open for our #GoodLife Residents Program on housing policy! Led by @resnikoff.bsky.social, the cohort will develop bold policy ideas to expand housing supply and address the real constraints on building, from costs to materials to financing. Learn more and apply by June 1 ⬇️

20-years after the Keystone Building collapsed into Union Street, New Bedford is finally repairing the gap left in its urban fabric. A new mixed-use development with 45 homes & retail is rising in its place, part of a broader housing renaissance driven by pro-housing leadership.

At tonight's #cambma Planning Board, Tom Sieniewicz announces that it is associate member Joy Jackson's last meeting, as she is moving across the river [to Boston?].

From @sightline.org www.sightline.org/2026/05/05/c...

“The plan is a sham. And it represents a bigger problem in Massachusetts: Housing prices are sky-high in large part because municipalities are effectively blocking new construction.” www.bostonglobe.com/2026/05/07/b...

By the way, it's not at all an exaggeration to say Marblehead residents were comparing 3A to the Revolutionary War

"Tyranny of townhouses." I love this man.

“We shouldn’t be signing our name to a lie and the state shouldn’t let us get away with it.” On state funding tied to compliance, he added: “We don’t f—ing deserve it. It’s just not the right thing to do.” marbleheadcurrent.org/2026/05/06/m...

David Modica, truly the hero we need in Massachusetts! www.bostonglobe.com/2026/05/06/b...

@massgovernor.bsky.social and @kimdriscollma.bsky.social must address this problem of fake paper compliance—towns acting like “selfish pricks” by designating a golf course that’s never going to change as the town’s multifamily housing district.

On its third attempt tonight, Marblehead Town Meeting approved an “MBTA Communities–compliant” district largely centered on the 125-year-old Tedesco Country Club, meeting 3A requirements on paper while all but assuring no new housing would be built. This comment says it all.

@massgovernor.bsky.social @kimdriscollma.bsky.social If we are truly serious about addressing MA’s severe housing shortage, we can’t base these decisions for a proposal a block from the red line on 15-year-old, car-oriented, suburban design guidelines.

Now that @burhanazeem.bsky.social is running for State office, Macy's is selling his look at its store downtown.

Brookline and other municipalities could plan for steady new growth that offsets Prop 2.5 via zoning reform but choose not to do so.

Great explainer on how (and why!) to fix the build-to-rent single-family home provisions in the Senate housing bill.

The current 12-game Jeopardy champion works at an affordable housing finance agency in NJ, and shamed New York for not building more housing: "NJ's doing really well, we're ahead of NY, CT, PA. If you're from one of those states, shame on you, build more housing."

🚨MA Sen. Sean Maguire files S.4012, the "Nonconforming Conformity Act." The bill would make Massachusetts legal to build in Massachusetts again. Towns would calculate what they actually built before zoning existed, lot sizes, setbacks, density, and make that the new baseline.

@massgovernor.bsky.social @kimdriscollma.bsky.social this would be a straightforward boost to housing production, along with permitting reforms like a municipal review shot clock and licensed third-party reviews and inspections.

Lexington schools have lost 550 students and face a $4.7 million gap. Staff cuts are coming. Those 1,600 apartments some are fighting will bring at least $7mil in revenue & maybe 250 students. That new housing is not a burden. It's a desperately needed bailout. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/03/27/m...

1. Here’s a thread on #NIMBY (“not in my backyard”) and the challenges of change in cities: First off, although it might feel that way, NIMBY isn’t unique to your city, and it’s (probably) not worse in your city than anywhere else. It’s also not surprising, since it’s largely about human nature.

Los Angeles’ housing crisis is self-inflicted.  For decades, city leaders have taken deliberate actions to limit new housing. Today, we announced our plan to fix this and triple housing production.

Across the country, the balance between local control & state action on housing has played out very differently. Montana & Texas have acted boldly at the state level while MA, CT, and NY continue to lag. A recent poll shows MA voters support stronger statewide action on housing.

It's happening! BUILD OR DIE: HOW AMERICA IS SUFFOCATING ITS CITIES AND WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT, coming from Princeton University Press on December 8. press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

This new Pew study finds the biggest rent decreases from building multifamily go to lower income renters in the least expensive apartments, which directly prevents displacement and homelessness. Exactly our goal in #CambridgeMA!

We’ve spent decades making walkable neighborhoods like these nearly impossible to build today. Beacon Hill v. Federal Hill Old Montreal v. Old Quebec But which ones are the best? 40 iconic neighborhoods. 1 champion. 🇨🇦🇺🇸 Round 1 voting ends March 25 www.remainplaces.com/walkable

Never let anyone tell you politics doesn't matter. Change is unimaginable until it's inevitable.

The Senate just passed the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act. I worked with colleagues on several of the bills in this bipartisan package to help boost housing supply and make it easier for families to find an affordable place to live. https://youtu.be/Es1IWoMprbA?si=Owf3Xgxvc8pVj1Mt

The folk morality around housing type and tenure in American cities:

Excellent speech from @schatz.bsky.social Schatz on the importance of fixing anti-build-to-rent provision in the ROAD to Housing Act (h/t @pewilliams.bsky.social) (1/3)

Over the past decade, The City of Austin, Texas has permitted more housing in a typical year than the entire Commonwealth of Massachusetts. In 2022 alone, Austin approved 24,227 units, about 1.5× the number permitted across Massachusetts that year.

I’ve had people laugh saying 'A better Massachusetts is possible' sounds underwhelming. But do you actually believe it? That fixing the T, solving the housing crisis, making childcare affordable is around the corner? Or is believing that we can have a government that delivers genuinely radical.

Great piece to share with the NIMBYs in your life.

Cambridge should consider a shift toward taxing land more than improvements/buildings!

Single-stair gets the New York Times treatment. @holz-bau.bsky.social reminds us why they call the last line the kicker: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/b... (gift link)

As we in #Brookline begin the discussion over this override, this is the shape of the debate:

Cambridge councilor @votejivan.bsky.social introducing a policy order to advance a ‘Snow Corps’ for better sidewalk-shoveling www.reddit.com/r/CambridgeM...

I was *already* excited to read this and then I got to "...local land-use planning." 😍

Check out the *incredible* campaign kickoff video from @burhanazeem.bsky.social and his team!

"The reality is that when homes are scarce, high and middle-income earners can trade down into lower-income neighborhoods to find housing, but low-income households have nowhere to turn, so they end up having to compete for their own homes and wind up paying higher rents."

Adding homes lowers rents for low-income tenants, even if they do not move into the new homes. Policies that impede the construction of homes - even those marketed as luxury housing - hurt tenants. Design Review is hostile to low-income tenants.

TL;DR: Adding housing actually cuts costs for those who need it most. 📉 Didn't think we needed it, but still grateful for the solid data (again).

So little bit a surprise but we also sent out a little mailer to almost every voter in the district today, both announcing the campaign and getting input! The first responses are coming in! Fill it out at voteburhan.com/survey

Can we get @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social to speak about housing to some folks in Boston? fxtwitter.com/NYCPlanning/...

Great to hear from @planning.boston.gov last night. The AB Community Plan is a generational opportunity to set the neighborhood on a path to build more housing, support local businesses, and invest in pedestrian and bicycle infrastructure. Hope to see folks at the Wed. meeting and ABHA after-party!

@kevinerdmann.bsky.social just discussed the terrific paper by MIT PhD student Vincent Rollet, who was on the @somervilleyimby.org and A Better Cambridge panel on Zoning for Affordability last October.