Join hosts Alina and Michelle as they speak with Aja Kennedy, Racial Wealth Gap Research Fellow with Boston Indicators and Ph.D. Candidate at Tufts University, and Katherine Levine Einstein, Associate Professor of Political Science at Boston University, about the Boston Foundation’s latest Greater Boston Housing Report Card. They discuss the severe crisis facing the housing market in Greater Boston due to exorbitant housing costs and limited housing availability, disproportionately effecting lower and moderate-income families. What are the challenges facing those living and working in Greater Boston? What are the roadblocks facing developers trying to build housing? How can public land offer a possible solution to this housing crisis? Learn this and more in this exciting episode! This episode was made possible by a Mass Save Community Education Grant.
Release date: January 30, 2025
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Show Notes:
The transcript for this episode can be found here.
Greater Boston Housing Report Card
Boston University Initiative on Cities
Housing Navigator Massachusetts
Multi-Family Zoning Requirement for MBTA Communities
Article in the Boston Globe about weaponizing public land
