Andrew Brinker

As he prepared to move, Globe housing reporter Andrew Brinker waded through thousands of listings, unresponsive brokers, and fierce competition with other tenants.

A new landmark report from the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston shows Massachusetts' lofty housing prices have helped maintain, or perhaps deepen, the state’s stubborn racial wealth gap.

While rents fall elsewhere, Boston’s housing market is so out of whack that it’s in a class largely by itself.

The 15-member council voted overwhelmingly to override the veto and approve a special zoning district for a 135-acre stretch of office buildings off Winter Street, owned by BXP, the city’s largest taxpayer, formerly known as Boston Properties, that will enable redevelopment of the land.

Apartment buildings are now cropping up on streets that haven’t seen so much as a home alteration in decades.

The federal legislation aimed at curbing the nation's housing problem that went into effect Saturday is wide-ranging, but mostly offers piecemeal changes as opposed to wholesale reforms.

Nearly everyone has an experience with out-of-control rents.

The stunning ruling came on the heels of a similar decision last week that saw the Supreme Judicial Court toss a question that would have lowered the state’s income tax to four percent.

Powerful real estate industry trade group NAIOP Massachusetts said Tuesday that it, too, is ready to negotiate to avoid a potentially-bruising ballot fight this fall on a strict statewide rent cap, putting forth a counterproposal of its own.

The town of around 30,000 this week sued the Commonwealth of Massachusetts over its plan to develop 180 homes on a parking lot owned by MassBay Community College.