02 Jan, 2025 Timeline Considerations For Boston's New RE Review Process By David Linhart Attorney David Linhart dives into Boston’s evolving large project review process and its implications for developers, communities, and...
13 Dec, 2024 Key Pillars of Boston’s Climate Strategy By Matthew Kiefer Peter Kaplan The Boston Municipal Research Bureau, which provides impartial research and policy analysis for the benefit of the City of Boston,...
08 Nov, 2024 Navigating HUD Programs: A Practitioners' Guide to the Labyrinth By Hara Perkins Attorney Hara Perkins co-authored Chapter 1, titled “FHA Multifamily Programs: General Overview and Recent Developments,” in Navigating...
15 Aug, 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...
11 Jun, 2024 Radio Boston - "Idea City": Top Boston thinkers on city's present and future By Matthew Kiefer Attorney Matthew Kiefer appeared on WBUR's Radio Boston program to discuss how to re-think zoning, a concept from Idea City: How to Make...
07 May, 2024 Boston’s Planning-Led Rezoning: New Skyline Districts By David Ingraham David Linhart Matthew Kiefer Boston is continuing its commitment to planning-led rezoning with the recent release by the Boston Planning and Development Agency...
27 Mar, 2024 Boston’s Planning-Led Rezoning: Squares + Streets Initiative By David Ingraham Adrienne Rosenblatt David Linhart Matthew Kiefer +1 more... Show less Boston’s campaign of planning-led rezoning is proceeding with a recent vote by the Boston Planning and Development Agency (BPDA) to...
21 Mar, 2024 City-owned lots on Harrison Ave. in Roxbury could soon be big housing complex By Matthew Kiefer The Wu administration's push to transform city-owned parking lots into affordable housing has attracted developers across neighborhoods...
05 Mar, 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...
08 Jan, 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...
08 Jan, 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...
22 Dec, 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...
03 Feb, 2022 Time Doesn’t Kill Leasing Deals, Bad Negotiation Does By Hara Perkins Propmodo Every good deal maker knows getting a handshake agreement is just the start of the sale. In deal-making, as well as...
14 Jan, 2022 D.C. Zoning Commission Responds to Two of Attorney General’s Inclusionary Zoning Proposals By David Avitabile John Epting Phil Feola Cary Kadlecek Allison Prince Christine Roddy Paul Tummonds Jeff Utz +5 more... Show less On December 2, 2021, the Office of the Attorney General for the District of Columbia (OAG), filed four petitions with the Zoning...
07 Jan, 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...
11 Aug, 2021 The Property Industry Can’t Ignore the Affordable Housing Crisis By Hara Perkins There are few statements nowadays that almost everyone can agree on, despite their political leanings. But here is one: housing in the...