Boston mayoral candidate Josh Kraft unveiled a plan that he says would improve housing access and affordability for more ...

Needham residents voted Tuesday to repeal zoning that would have made the Greater Boston town compliant with the MBTA Communities Act – a plan that carried much more weight than what the state ...

BOSTON - Governor Maura Healey unveiled her plan to ease the housing crisis at the State House Thursday, calling for 222,000 new housing units to be built in Massachusetts within the next decade.

Needham is one of the largest and also one of the closest to Boston. Its plan would have created capacity for nearly 3,300 units, significantly more than the 1,784 minimum required for the town ...

Residents are raising concerns after the MBTA announced plans to install a new commuter rail track on the Haverhill line in ...

Town Meeting is set to take a second vote in as many years on the MBTA Communities districts after the Planning Board voted 3 ...

First step: Needham’s planning board must craft a new zoning plan, then send it back to Town Meeting. Still, both sides said Wednesday they were eager to work together to draft a plan everyone ...

Currently, the Boston Town Area Committee (BTAC ... rural county like Lincolnshire. “This plan may fit in places like Manchester and Birmingham, but it doesn’t work for a county like Lincolnsh ...

Any new plan has to go through the Town Meeting process ... You hear the same troublesome trend all over Greater Boston: Kids who grew up here can’t afford to move back and raise their own ...

Bourne is near to complying with a state law that has commuting workers and housing in mind, with MBTA Communities Act.

Needham became the latest Massachusetts suburb to shoot down a controversial state-mandated MBTA zoning plan, but its Select Board chairman says the town won’t follow in Milton’s footsteps.