Newton City Council votes to strike Crescent Street housing project
The TAB’s Julie Cohen reports here.
Councilor Gentile to Globe: “That is not the community I grew up in.”
Councilor Gentile is putting up a proposal to hit the pause button on development. On Tuesday at Zoning & Planning Committee and the Planning Development Board, there will be a public hearing on few proposals designed to slow development, but the one that gets the...What is going on with housing prices?
This originally appeared in City Councilor Jake Auchincloss’ email newsletter. Debates about housing dynamics are often vague, anectdotal, and ad hominem. So, here’s an attempt to explain housing prices concretely, empirically, and systemically: Housing prices...This Thursday: A discussion about affordable housing needs in Newton
The UCHAN’s (United Citizens for Housing Affordability in Newton) ongoing educational forum on housing in Newton continues this Thursday April 19 with a overview of housing needs taken from Newton’s Housing Strategy and will include stories from people whose stories...Why we should all care about what happens to Mount Ida’s campus
As anyone who has been following the news knows, UMass Amherst deal to acquire the Mount Ida College campus in Newton is drawing intense political heat. As I wrote in a statement for the Newton-Needham Chamber, lost in all the noise is the fact that this proposal...
Finally, perhaps some insight into Norton’s smart growth opposition
In my role as president of the Newton-Needham Regional Chamber, I’m often asked, both on Village 14 and elsewhere, if the opinions I express on this (independent) blog and elsewhere, represent my personal values or the interests of the businesses and nonprofits...
TAB: Newton’s ‘hidden problem’
Just as the Andy Levin era has ended at the Newton TAB comes this “news” from the paper’s front page..
“Some Boston area towns and cities have a hidden problem — a lack of affordable housing for low income families..
…this is a regional, even national problem that many Boston area communities like Newton, Wellesley and Needham are facing…”
Auchincloss: Why you should pay attention to Baker’s housing plan
“Whether you support or oppose further large-scale development in Newton, the governor’s Housing Choice Initiative is worth your attention,” Newton City Councilor Jake Auchincloss begins in this column on Medium. If the Act to promote housing...City drops claim it met the state 40B affordable housing threshold
The city has “backed away” from its assertion that it had met Chapter 40B’s “safe harbor” threshold of having affordable housing on at least 1.5 percent of developable land, The TAB’s Andy Levin reports.
According to the memo, the city has 105.6 acres of affordable housing. In order to achieve 1.5 percent, it would require 107.7 acres. In addition to the Auburn Street project, which was approved for a comprehensive permit late last month, the memo states there are several pending projects that could add to the land mass dedicated to affordable housing.
Program series will explore Newton’s housing needs
U-CHAN (Uniting Citizens for Housing Affordability in Newton) is launching a four part series of programs designed to provide Newton Residents with factual information to enhance our knowledge of housing needs. The first program, on Jan. 25 from 7-9 p.m. will feature...
Let there be housing! Austin Street project finally set to begin!
Mayor Setti Warren and Austin Street Partners are scheduled to sign the ground lease Friday morning, allowing — at long last — the project at Austin Street to go forward.
This project will include 68 rental apartments — one third of which will be affordable — plus retail and restaurant space, a plaza and
Newton joins coalition committed to new housing
Newton has joined a coalition of 14 Boston-area cities and towns have pledged to work together to address the region’s severe housing shortage. The groups goals, according to this story in the Boston Business Journal, include.. Speed up housing construction Create...
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