Boston Sued Over Rent Control Advisors’ Emails
Landlord trade group MassLandlords has filed suit against the city of Boston for allegedly hiding emails between city officials and members of Mayor Michelle Wu’s Rent Stabilization Advisory Committee.
How Will Boston’s Rent Stabilization Shake Out?
Other cities’ experiments with “rent control 2.0” offer clues to how Boston Mayor Michelle Wu may try to fulfil a key campaign promise while keeping developers on-side.
Rent Control Is Not the Answer to Our Housing Crisis
Affordable and middle-income workforce housing is critical to the region’s competitiveness, and NAIOP believes that solutions focused on housing production and expanding rental assistance are a better focus for policymakers.
Is Wu’s Rent Control Panel Actually Listening?
The panel crafting Boston Mayor Michelle Wu’s promised “rent stabilization” proposal is telling members of the public to not argue about the merits of rent control, only how to implement it.
Boston Landlords Give City Earful at Rent Control Listening Session
If Boston is going to reintroduce a rent control regime, it needs to exempt small landlords, particularly those who keep their rents substantially below market-rate, landlords from across the city told officials at a listening session Thursday.
In the Affordable Housing Lottery, Being a ‘Winner’ May Be a Losing Proposition
Gentrification across Boston has created a significant shortage of affordable housing, in particular rentals that are too often beyond the reach of so many – especially young people of color.
