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Housing Affordability

Hammer Time: How Students, Faculty, Local Businesses and Holyoke’s Community Development Corporation Are Teaming Up to Fight the Housing Crisis

By Daegan Miller, originally published on September 26, 2023 on https://www.umass.edu/news/article/hammer-time-how-students-faculty-local-businesses-and-holyokes-community-development They call it “Paper House”: a modular, 500-square-foot, high-performance,…

housingandclimate.orgOctober 9, 2023

Housing Affordability

Home Prices and Interest Rates Still Rising, Shutting Out More Potential Homebuyers

By Daniel McCue Originally posted on the Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University Piling on top of steep…

housingandclimate.orgOctober 6, 2023

Government Action Housing Affordability

The invisible laws that led to America’s housing crisis

By Nathaniel Meyersohn In the 1910s, US cities began enacting policies that would shape neighborhoods and, unintentionally, lay the roots…

housingandclimate.orgAugust 7, 2023

Climate Change Government Action Housing Affordability

HBRAMA Releases Landmark Study on Net Zero Energy Code and Housing Affordability

Massachusetts must take bolder steps to solve the housing affordability crisis while simultaneously counteracting climate change, including new policies to…

housingandclimate.orgJuly 13, 2023

Housing Affordability

The US housing market is short 6.5 million homes

By: Anna Bahney, CNN The United States is not building enough homes to account for the number of people setting…

housingandclimate.orgApril 10, 2023

Housing Affordability

A hundred years of choking housing growth catches up with Massachusetts

Since the early 20th century, the Legislature has let individual municipalities thwart housing. Now the consequences threaten the Commonwealth’s future.…

housingandclimate.orgApril 10, 2023

Climate Change Government Action Utilities

No more climate legislation needed; it’s time for action

Massachusetts needs to focus on the fundamentals of net zero infrastructure. In 2021, after extensive negotiation, the Massachusetts Legislature passed…

housingandclimate.orgApril 5, 2023

Climate Change Utilities

Getting to yes on climate change response

CLIMATE CHANGE is real. So too is a massive transformation underway of electric power generation markets and transmission networks. That transformation…

housingandclimate.orgFebruary 6, 2023

Climate Change Government Action

Stretch codes: More stringent building codes coming to Central Mass.

Massachusetts has more than 2 million buildings, and they are a major drag on the environment and the state government’s…

housingandclimate.orgJanuary 26, 2023

Climate Change Government Action

There’s a dam breaking: Cities and towns start to kick fossil fuels with new building code

Brookline and Watertown last week became the first communities in the state to adopt a new building code discouraging the…

housingandclimate.orgJanuary 18, 2023

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Hammer Time: How Students, Faculty, Local Businesses and Holyoke’s Community Development Corporation Are Teaming Up to Fight the Housing Crisis

Home Prices and Interest Rates Still Rising, Shutting Out More Potential Homebuyers

The invisible laws that led to America’s housing crisis

HBRAMA Releases Landmark Study on Net Zero Energy Code and Housing Affordability

The US housing market is short 6.5 million homes

A hundred years of choking housing growth catches up with Massachusetts

No more climate legislation needed; it’s time for action

Getting to yes on climate change response

Stretch codes: More stringent building codes coming to Central Mass.

There’s a dam breaking: Cities and towns start to kick fossil fuels with new building code

Climate change and housing costs forum

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