Fire codes have long required two staircases in mid-rise apartment buildings. But advocates worry that drives up construction costs. So the state will study doing away with one.

An imbalance in the kind of housing getting built and rising insurance costs are impeding housing progress, according to two ...

Gov. Maura Healey wants to update the state building code by legalizing single-stair, mid-rise housing units to make it easier to construct more homes across Massachusetts, an effort that has raised ...

Some White House allies acknowledge what they face in the coming months is less a policy fight than a messaging battle on ...

Healey orders study of single‑stair mid‑rise buildings; a 2024 report says the change could unlock roughly 130,000 homes.

Caliber Corporate Advisers reports that rising home prices, high mortgage rates, and low inventory are driving ...

The challenge, they say, is for the president to show voters through his housing policies that he feels their pain — even if there’s little he can do to materially lower housing costs in the near term ...

About 44% of Houston-area households could afford the median-priced home in the fourth quarter of 2025.

As Massachusetts faces a housing shortage, local cities are turning back to triple-deckers — an iconic New England housing structure. Still, some question whether the triple-decker is part of the ...

President Donald Trump has vowed to tackle America’s housing affordability crisis, but the White House has so far offered few ...

Only 14% of our land on Cape Cod is still available for development; of that number, 80% is environmentally sensitive.

Here’s a look at the social media network Meta, formerly known as Facebook. Facts Meta says it had on average 3.58 billion daily active people across its platforms in December 2025. There were 78,865 ...