2025May
"A new era of single-stair apartment buildings is coming to Denver and other Colorado cities"
The design will be allowed again for smaller projects, as long as developers include other safety features.
...More"The numbers don’t work in Cambridge"
One perverse way to think about development is that it is a tool to transfer costs away from people who don’t want to pay for stuff to people who don’t know they’re paying for stuff.
...More"‘The numbers should work, and they just don’t’: Is Cambridge’s affordable housing rule backfiring?"
Cambridge is one of many local communities that require most new housing developments to include units set aside at below-market rents — in its case, 20 percent of the building, which is among the highest rates in Greater Boston — with the intention of creating more affordable homes in a city that is starved for them…..Put another way, a policy aimed at generating affordable housing may actually be preventing it.
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