Andrew Brinker

Mortgage rates are soaring, another blow to Mass. housing affordability as buyers face higher monthly payments

While inclusionary zoning has created thousands of new affordable homes across Boston, Cambridge, and Somerville, the economics of homebuilding have shifted significantly over the past few years.

The tax breaks are part of a broader effort that involves tax relief for residential developments 100 units or larger that have been unable to break ground due to financing constraints.

‘Ambitious but possible’: Wu plans on new tax breaks, reworked zoning to tackle Boston housing crisis

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.

Duplexes everywhere? Religious-land exemption? What housing policy will survive the end-of-session rush?