Andrew Brinker

Voters in Needham will be asked to weigh in on a plan to allow dense multifamily housing in key commercial areas near the Commuter Rail.

Over the years, city and state lawmakers have periodically pushed to modify broker fees, which real estate agents charge for acting as the middleman between prospective tenants and landlords.

A new report estimates that developing just a fraction of publicly owned land in Greater Boston could make room for 85,000 new homes.

A new apartment complex with upscale amenities may seem like a marker of gentrification. But this development will provide new homes for some of the city’s poorest residents.

In a collision of two huge challenges facing Massachusetts, newly arrived migrants are struggling to find scarce housing.

A city program helps community groups take apartment buildings off the market as part of a broader effort to slow the pace of gentrification in lower-income neighborhoods and create more affordable housing.

Just as Greater Boston’s housing market was showing signs of life earlier this year, single-family home sales in September fell to the lowest mark for the month since 1995.

It has required an all-out political war to get to this point, but housing may be coming to New England’s largest mall soon.

A lawsuit from Attorney General Andrea Campbell challenges the town of Milton after voters there shot down a zoning plan that could’ve cleared the way for hundreds of new housing units.

Healey and her top housing officials, along with a group of mayors, municipal planners, and housing advocates, celebrated on Tuesday what they see as growing momentum in favor of the state’s housing efforts.

The project would be the latest section of Causeway Street and the Bulfinch Triangle to transform with new development.

Federal lawmakers want to know how landlords used software made by RealPage, which gathers competitively sensitive leasing data.

See the latest rent estimates and trends for cities and towns in the Greater Boston area.

The bill, the Legislature’s first major housing bill in three years, marks a victory for some advocates, particularly zoning reform proponents and affordable housing supporters. But it left others disappointed.

While a late-session crunch is typical on Beacon Hill, the Massachusetts Legislature still has lots of work to do before the legislative session ends on July 31.

New legislation would direct nearly $550 billion to housing construction, encourage looser zoning, and boost programs to assist lower-income buyers.

Those training programs are broadly popular, but housing authorities warn the requirement would dramatically escalate the cost and complexity of rehabilitating units.

The new record is yet another sobering reminder of how dire the housing affordability crisis has become.

The construction pause is a testament to how high interest rates and materials costs are preventing developers from building much-needed projects.

The Metropolitan Area Planning Council and a consortium of cities were awarded a $3 million grant to study the idea of bringing a modular housing plant — in other words, a house factory — to Greater Boston.