The state of Massachusetts has set a goal to establish 10,000 apartments and condos a year, but what will it take to deliver on that ambitious agenda, especially after the state's new political leadership takes over?
"Everyone talks about the need for more housing with [Massachusetts] setting an ambitious goal of creating 10,000 apartments and condos a year," writes Shirley Leung in a column for the Boston Globe. "But what we don’t spend enough time on is talking about what that might look like.
Leung spoke with Greg Bialecki, the outgoing state housing and economic development secretary about what the development necessary to meet that goal would look like, if achieved.
"Simply put, Bialecki said, to achieve the state’s goal, Greater Boston will need about a dozen projects the size of Somerville’s Assembly Row, a $1.5 billion mixed-used development that will include about 1,800 apartments."
The column goes on to argue in favor of shifting the state's approach, and often resistance, to housing projects.
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