One of the tools in the state’s housing-creation toolbox has been lying unused for more than two years, waiting for the state ...

The Healey administration is rolling out $8.7 million to Massachusetts cities and towns complying with the controversial MBTA ...

Middleboro has sued the Healey administration due to what it says is a “great abuse of power” as the state withholds previously committed grant funding in a fight over the controversial MBTA ...

The Select Board has argued that zoning at least 50 acres near downtown for multi-family housing, with 15 units per acre and a capacity of 750 units, could lead to a 13% population increase.

Communities across eastern Massachusetts are under pressure to ... communities — had until the end of 2024 to pass compliant zoning rules. And in January, the Supreme Judicial Court ruled ...

Last Friday, Massachusetts’ “Unlocking Housing Production ... Economic Incentives and Workforce Development; Land Use and Zoning; Regulations, Codes, and Permitting; and Statewide Planning ...

The MBTA Communities Act requires 177 towns and cities across Massachusetts to create at least one zoning district where multifamily housing is allowed by right. These communities are placed into ...

Gov. Maura Healey says she doesn’t want to see Massachusetts cities and towns “penalized” because of the controversial MBTA zoning law but is not backing away from withholding grants from ...

Most of the communities were supposed to submit revised zoning rules by the end of last year. Image A commuter train approaches the station in Needham, Mass. The MBTA Communities Act required ...