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By CHRIS LISINSKI

Voters will not be asked next year whether Massachusetts should revive local-option rent control after organizers working on a 2024 ballot question suspended their campaign late Friday.After facing pushback from other housing justice and progressive...

By COLIN A. YOUNG

After weeks of maintaining distance from Gov. Maura Healey’s handling of the state’s emergency shelter capacity crisis, the House is likely to approve a legislative directive that Healey establish a shelter overflow site — and the move is revealing...

By CHRIS LARABEE

GREENFIELD — As the Healey administration prepares to advocate for its five-year, $4.12 billion housing bond bill, the Massachusetts housing secretary toured Greenfield Housing Authority properties on Tuesday to share what the legislation could do for...

By BELLA LEVAVI

Rural legislators and organizations are working hard to make sure they get a portion of Gov. Maura Healey’s five-year, $4.12 billion housing bond bill that was unveiled earlier this month.Since Healey took office in January, she has created the...

By SAM DRYSDALE

BOSTON — A Superior Court judge on Wednesday denied a request to put a temporary hold on the Healey administration’s plan to cap the number of families in the state’s strained emergency shelter system.The decision followed an emergency court hearing...

By CHRIS LISINSKI and SAM DRYSDALE

BOSTON — Shortly before a court hearing challenging the Healey administration’s allegedly “rushed” changes to the shelter system, officials filed new emergency regulations seeking to enable a temporary hard cap on the number of families that can be...

By MARY BYRNE

GREENFIELD — Health inspectors are requesting the assistance of the Board of Health as they deal with ongoing concerns from tenants about rodents at Greenfield Gardens.“It seems like there is some type of tenant request for Health Department needs...

By BELLA LEVAVI

SHELBURNE FALLS — Executive Office of Elder Affairs Secretary Elizabeth Chen visited with members of the state’s first regional senior services district on Thursday to talk about addressing the needs of the region’s seniors, including housing. Chen...

By BELLA LEVAVI

ASHFIELD — The Zoning Board of Appeals and Planning Board are looking to get creative around zoning to help address the need for housing.The two boards met with Franklin Regional Council of Governments Building Commissioner and Ashfield Zoning...

By CHRIS LISINSKI

BOSTON — The Healey administration wants to give cities and towns the power to impose a new fee on high-price real estate transactions and steer the revenue into affordable housing development, pitching a local-option transfer tax alongside more than...

By JULIAN MENDOZA

MONTAGUE — Residents and Selectboard members present at the board’s Monday meeting were reluctant to endorse a design that would reduce a planned six units of housing on First Street to five when the option was presented by Habitat for Humanity,...

By MARY BYRNE

GREENFIELD — More than a dozen pre-applications have been reviewed by the Community Preservation Committee and given the OK to move forward in the application process, including a proposal to build 46 units of senior housing in the Legion Avenue...

By BELLA LEVAVI

With the implementation of statewide centralized screening, the Franklin County Regional Housing & Redevelopment Authority hopes to see improvement in the filling of its public housing units.This service, which is being provided by the Lawrence-based...

By CHRIS LISINSKI

BOSTON — Gov. Maura Healey has proposed using nearly $300 million in one-time funds to infuse the state’s strained emergency assistance shelter system and close a tax revenue shortfall.Healey filed a more than $2 billion budget last week to close the...

By MARY BYRNE

GREENFIELD — Housing and shelter experts from across Franklin and Hampshire counties recently joined legislative Housing Committee Chair Sen. Lydia Edwards on a tour of the region to discuss rural housing and shelter challenges and opportunities.“The...

By BELLA LEVAVI

Homes in Franklin County are being brought up to code with a new round of grants. Through the Community Development Block Grant Program, the Franklin County Regional Housing & Redevelopment Authority received $800,000 to be put toward rehabilitating...

By JULIAN MENDOZA

MONTAGUE — The town has received nearly $1.33 million in Community Development Block Grant funding to support eight initiatives.Montague is one of five Franklin County towns — with the others being Orange, Wendell, Charlemont and Bernardston — to...

By ALISON KUZNITZ

BOSTON — Nearly $2 million in federal funds will flow into Massachusetts and Boston city coffers to tackle the migrant housing crisis, with the money arriving just over a week after Gov. Maura Healey declared a state of emergency due to strained...

By MARY BYRNE

GREENFIELD — With a multimillion-dollar apartment renovation project underway, public health officials are grappling with complaints of rodents at Greenfield Gardens. “We’re working diligently to address people’s concerns,” said Caroline Murray,...

By CHRIS LARABEE

SUNDERLAND — With the flip of a switch on Wednesday, Sanderson Place’s solar array kicked on and set the senior housing facility on the road to energy independence.At the same time, the event marked Pioneer Valley Photovoltaics’ (PV Squared Solar),...