NEW BEDFORD – Miles Grant says he lives in a beautiful little home in a beautiful little neighborhood of homes in Fairhaven. Nonetheless, he said, it would be totally illegal to build that beautiful little neighborhood under current zoning bylaws. That's…
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Voters in Springfield have an advisory question on their ballots this election asking if the city should create a landlord registry and licensing program similar to other Illinois cities. Because it is an advisory question, it will not directly…
Kim never expected to be homeless. The 58-year-old woman shared a home with her boyfriend of more than three decades. But when he died two years ago, she couldn’t afford the rent. The disabled woman, who gets around with a…
According to a 40-page conceptual master plan described by the Boston Globe, the proposal would allow for two apartment buildings and additional retail space on the Market Basket parcel, with a so-called village center also envisioned for the site. The…
Cambridge unveiled its new development dashboard at Tuesday’s City Council meeting. The dashboard was built in response to a policy order sponsored by Councillor Cathie Zusy to make more information available about housing development, and is now available to the…
Two Boston city councilors want to put the city's worst landlords on blast — literally. City Council President Liz Breadon and Councilor Brian Worrell introduced an ordinance Wednesday that would create a public list of landlords with repeated housing violations, unpaid…
Massachusetts’ poverty rate is estimated at 9.1% under the traditional measure and 12.5% under the Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM), a difference of 3.4 percentage points, Axios reported. That gap is a comparison between two ways of measuring poverty, not evidence that the rate…
Lynn and MBTA police moved in Monday morning and cleared out a persistent homeless encampment that had sprawled beneath the Central Square train tracks for weeks, following a wave of public health and safety complaints from residents and commuters. The…
QUINCY ‒ Ward 1 City Councilor David Jacobs reported what appears to be an act of trespassing and vandalism at his private residence on the night of Saturday, Oct. 17. Home surveillance video provided by Jacobs shows an unidentified individual approaching the home…
Boston-based WinnCompanies celebrated the completion of its $51-million redevelopment of Worcester’s former Lincoln Square Boys Club on Wednesday, cutting the ribbon on an 80-unit affordable housing complex for adults 55 and older. Gov. Maura Healey joined city officials and executives for…
The roof-over-head fights.
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