The North Shore pro-housing movement is strong & getting stronger! 💪 Great to bring nearly 150 pro-housing advocates from communities across Boston’s North Shore together last night to build connections, strengthen our regional coalition and hear from Kim Driscoll.

Towns that insist on locking themselves in amber, opposing all new housing & zoning reforms, should be cut off from all state funding. If they want to reap the benefits of a growing regional economy while refusing to support it, then they can handle their own growing expenses.

A proposed 60-unit multi-family building adjacent to the Wellesley Hills Station that would have provided "homes for young families & older downsizers" has been cut back in scope to contain only 2-single family homes following opposition. 📍Wellesley, MA theswellesleyreport.com/2024/08/in-wak…

A new mixed-use development will create 136 walkable, transit-oriented homes (21 affordable) cafe & retail space, a new 2,100sf community center and public plaza. 📍Andover, MA

A great visualization of the nationwide breakdown between “buyers markets” (🔵) and “sellers markets” (🔴) from ResiClub.

Hot take: In the aggregate, New England has some of the best weather in the Country. 🌞 ❄️ 🌸 🍁

I’m a driver. I drive in bus only lanes every chance I get, I stop in virtually every bus zone I see, and I am absolutely ecstatic whenever I hear a car gets ticketed for it. Because I drive the bus. Wish you had interviewed a transit operator, we could explain why this is just.

An Overlooked Result Of The Housing Crisis? Renters Stuck In Shoddy Apartments “Landlords can get away with being not very responsive, providing poor quality housing & still raising the rent if they know that you have no place else to go.” Jenny Schuetz wgbh.org/news/housing/2…

“The Economist has found that, for every life the heaviest 1% of suvs or trucks saves in America, more than a dozen lives are lost in smaller vehicles.” economist.com/leaders/2024/0…

The density Boston suburbs think MBTA Communities rezoning will allow vs The density MBTA Communities rezoning will actually allow in Boston suburbs

Share Of US Homes Valued At $1 Million Or More 2015: 2% 2020: 4% 2024: 8.5% 📊 Redfin redfin.com/news/million-d…