Aug 15, 2024 City of Boston Office to Residential Conversion Program Extension By David Ingraham Matthew Kiefer David Linhart In June, Mayor Wu announced the extension of the City of Boston's Office to Residential Conversion Program with $15 million in additional...
Mar 05, 2024 Will apartments solve housing scarcity? By David Linhart Governor Maura Healey has called out housing as Massachusetts’ biggest challenge—both increasing the pace of production and lowering the...
Jan 08, 2024 Boston Adds Updated Inclusionary Development Policy to the Zoning Code—What Questions Remain? By Matthew Kiefer David Linhart In November 2023, the Boston Zoning Commission adopted Article 79 of the Boston Zoning Code, codifying for the first time long-studied...
Jan 08, 2024 Renting in the wake of homeownership By David Linhart After the Great Depression, federal policy pushed single-family homeownership as the gold standard of housing through Federal Housing...
Dec 22, 2023 Apartments in the suburbs By David Linhart Amy Dain’s November 2023 report on exclusionary zoning in Boston’s suburbs details how White neighborhoods either prohibited apartment...
Oct 18, 2023 The “City of Yes” Plan: Seven Proposed Changes to Alleviate NYC’s Housing Crisis By George Evans Andrew Shaw New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced seven key features of his administration’s “City of Yes” plan in September. Designed to update...
Jul 17, 2023 The Semantic (and Substantive) Misconception in "Handing Back" the Keys By Timothy John Carter The phrase "hand back the keys" is frequently used in discussions of a borrower's options to address a distressed loan scenario, in real...
Jun 08, 2023 DC Council Reaches Compromise on Rent Stabilization By Jennifer Bisgaier Earlier this week, the DC Council voted to cap rent increases on rent-stabilized units in the District at 6% for the next two years,...
Mar 22, 2023 Biden’s FY2024 Budget: Key Real Estate Tax Proposals By Gerret Baur Martha Nahill Frahm Abe Leitner On March 9, 2023, President Biden released his FY2024 budget (the “FY2024 Budget”), and the U.S. Treasury released the so-called “Green...
Jan 18, 2023 Governor Kathy Hochul Proposes New York State Housing Compact By Brian Cohen George Evans Hara Perkins Andrew Shaw +1 more... Show less On January 10, New York Governor Kathy Hochul announced The New York Housing Compact, a series of proposals to grow the housing stock...
Oct 19, 2022 Signs of Moving to Yes on Housing Development in NY? By George Evans It may have taken a long time to get here, but it is encouraging to see city council members who traditionally have opposed large-scale...
Apr 12, 2022 Biden’s FY2023 Budget: Key Real Estate & Corporate Tax Proposals By Gerret Baur Martha Nahill Frahm Abe Leitner On March 28, 2022, President Biden released his FY2023 budget (the “FY2023 Budget”), and the U.S. Treasury released the so-called “Green...
Jan 07, 2022 It’s More Than An Affordable Home - It’s A Viable Community By Hara Perkins Brian Carrozza Bisnow - Reimagining Real Estate In our “Reimagining Real Estate” series, attorneys from the firm’s market-leading real estate practice...
Jan 27, 2021 VC Investment in HousingTech Can Yield Profits and Change Lives By Goulston & Storrs Goulston & Storrs' Hara Perkins and CEO of Civic Consulting USA, Alexander Shermansong, were featured in TechCrunch on January 27, 2021,...