Top Story Housing Reports, Data, and Confusion by Scott Pollack December 11, 2024 Obviously, I am fond of data. Housing - Multifamily Housing - Single-Family Housing - Subsidized Neighborhoods Series
Top Story Member Spotlight: Tom Daniel, Director of Planning and Community Development, City of Salem By Tom Daniel, Director of Planning and Community Development, City of Salem November 21, 2024 Tom discusses his start in planning; his work in Salem, from housing to offshore wind; and grounding community vision with market realities. Community and Neighborhood Development Economic Development Housing - Affordable and Workforce Housing - Multifamily Housing - Single-Family Member Profile
Top Story Upzoning Is Necessary, But Is It Sufficient? By Scott Pollack and Susan Connelly October 18, 2024 Upzoning is an important tool, but 20 years of data shows that it can’t, on its own, create the scale of new housing needed. Housing - Multifamily Housing - Single-Family Regulations and Zoning Urban and Regional Planning
Top Story Local Control Isn’t Our Only Problem By Scott Pollack and Susan Connelly September 19, 2024 Housing is highly regulated for a very good reason. Each regulation creates a benefit and imposes a cost. Housing - Affordable and Workforce Housing - Multifamily Series
Top Story Could the Cost of the Housing Status Quo be Worse Than Change? By Scott Pollack July 29, 2024 Lots of people are talking and writing about how hard it is to build housing in Massachusetts. Economic Development Economy Housing - Affordable and Workforce Housing - Multifamily Housing - Single-Family Series
Top Story Why Data Matters By Jennifer Gilbert, Susan Connelly, and Scott Pollack June 18, 2024 It is startling how little reliable, coherent data is available... [for] the planning, design and building of affordable housing. Housing - Affordable and Workforce Housing - Multifamily Housing - Single-Family Housing - Subsidized Series
Top Story Why Multiple, Parallel Regulatory Authorities Makes Housing Really Hard By Scott Pollack and Susan Connelly April 23, 2024 Development sits in the middle of a dynamic fiscal, resource and permitting ecosystem that is really hard to navigate. Development Projects - Small Scale Housing - Affordable and Workforce Housing - Multifamily Housing - Single-Family Regulations and Zoning Series
Top Story What Does Community Character Mean Anyway? By Scott Pollack and Susan Connelly March 20, 2024 Most conversations about housing in Massachusetts inevitably end in discussions about local control and community character. Housing - Affordable and Workforce Housing - Multifamily Housing - Single-Family Neighborhoods Regulations and Zoning Series Traditional Neighborhood Development/New Urbanism
Top Story We Are Not Who We Used To Be By Scott Pollack and Susan Connelly February 20, 2024 Like it or not, we live in a time of rapid, persistent, and unpredictable change. Demographics Housing - Affordable and Workforce Housing - Multifamily Housing - Single-Family Series
Top Story The Problems with Housing By Scott Pollack and Susan Connelly January 19, 2024 Everyone agrees we have a housing problem... but that is not sufficient to know what to do next. Economy Housing - Affordable and Workforce Housing - Multifamily Housing - Single-Family Leadership Neighborhoods Series
