In the World’s Wealthiest Country, Housing Should Be a Human Right and a Community Builder
The focus on zoning, commerce, and profit-maximization does a disservice to the rich sense of community affordable housing can create.
The focus on zoning, commerce, and profit-maximization does a disservice to the rich sense of community affordable housing can create.
Sixty years without substantially narrowing the racial wealth divide is a policy failure.
The state legislature has blocked the city’s luxury real estate transfer tax for nearly four years.
Investor purchases accounted for 24 percent of all residential real estate sales in Boston in the fourth quarter of 2022. A 10 percent tax on those sales could yield $82 million in revenue.