The pace of housing development change requires officials to take the challenges brought on by multifamily zoning seriously, rising above Yimby and Nimby rhetoric.
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Margaret Fuller House project wins approval, with a food pantry upgrade and housing replacing a parking lot
A mixed-income housing project can go forward at the Margaret Fuller House community center in a $3.8 million deal with the Cambridge Redevelopment Authority.
Six-story condo building wins muted approval for an odd lot in East Cambridge beset by changing laws
Laws for the land that once held a Dunkin’ Donuts have change twice since the project was permitted in 2023 – and since construction began.
Nonprofit developer plans to put up affordable housing and offices at lot along Concord Avenue
Homeowner’s Rehabilitation Inc. plans to build affordable housing at its recently purchased lot at 755 Concord Ave. in the Cambridge Highlands.
Cambridge meetings, June 8-15: Two zoning laws that speed home construction are targeted for changes
Take part in meetings on calls to alter residential zoning and how to explain school incidents to families, and a roundtable about boosting business start-ups.
Concerns about parking and traffic dominate meeting on adding 92 affordable homes in Cambridge
An affordable-homes apartment building proposed for North Cambridge is bringing its developers a by now familiar kind of whiplash.
Correcting the record about the impact of Cambridge’s Multifamily Housing ordinance
Discussions toward addressing a housing shortage are going to be more difficult if there is misinformation being circulated
Cambridge meetings, May 31-June 8: New homes, stopping the sewage and a gun buyback
Take part in meetings on changes that can reshape Cambridge Street, 92 homes for Rindge Avenue and ending sewage outflow into public waters.
Apartment buildings with 79 units will be transitioned to affordable housing after purchase
Spokespeople with the Cambridge Housing Authority and city said they would work with current residents to convert the homes to affordable.
Nine years later, empty Vail Court is headed again toward becoming affordable housing
The long and narrow lot seized by the city in 2016 is again due to get a developer and be shaped into homes, though no time too soon.