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Business/Housing

  • Massachusetts enacted its most ambitious housing law in decades. Now the hard part is enforcing it. Link.

  • Mass. is spending big to boost homeownership. What happens when the money dries up? Link.

  • On a Cape Cod golf course, the region’s housing crisis comes to a head. Link.

  • Kim Driscoll could be the housing leader Massachusetts needs. Link.

  • In pandemic’s aftermath, small landlords are still feeling the pressure. Link.

  • A housing development at South Shore Plaza seemed like a home run. Not so fast, residents say. Link.

  • In East Boston, a big move to keep renters in their homes. Link.

  • ‘A dire situation’: Surging rents and housing shortage spark homelessness in Lawrence. Link.

  • Will less parking mean more housing in Cambridge? Link.

 

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  • Most towns are going along with the state’s new multifamily housing law. Not Middleborough. Link.

  • Boston is paying landlords to house formerly homeless people. Will it help? Link.

  • ‘We are losing the Cape we have always loved’: Soaring home prices put the pinch on longtime renters. Link.

  • More people in Greater Boston are giving up on buying a house. That’s bad news for renters. Link.

  • Worcester is booming amid Boston’s housing affordability crisis. Now its home prices are soaring, too. Link.

  • Is the answer to Massachusetts housing crisis coming to your backyard? Don’t hold your breath. Link.

  • For sale at Smith & Wesson: Guns, and a healthy dose of fear. Link.

  • At an old mill in Littleton, gun dealers openly defy Maura Healey’s assault weapon decrees. Link.

  • Gunmakers are fleeing the Northeast, complaining about the region’s tough gun laws as they go. Link.

 

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Metro

  • Harvard’s new head chaplain is an atheist, unanimously elected by his peers. Link/pdf

  • Three centuries later, a push to exonerate one last witch. Link/pdf

  • ‘We’re not going to back down’: As threat of Russian invasion looms, local Ukrainians remain resilient. Link/pdf

  • ‘The healing process can finally begin’: Funeral services delayed by pandemic restrictions now offer loved ones a way forward. Link/pdf

  • Rising seas pose an ‘existential threat’ to MBTA, study warns. Link/pdf

  • Alaska man killed when airborne metal tool smashed through his windshield on I-95 in Danvers. Link/pdf

  • Suspect in Brighton stabbing of rabbi held without bail as investigators search for a motive. Link/pdf

  • A summer outing, another tragedy: Spate of drownings continues as swimmer dies off Castle Island. Link/pdf