housing Archives

As Greater Boston Housing Costs Soar, Advocates Confront Tent Bans, Sweeps, And Cuts

Catching up with Warm Up Boston about tent sweeps, shelter limits, drug dangers, and the criminalization of people living on streets

OLIVIA DENG August 21, 2025

Opinion: Rethinking Affordability—It’s Not Just ‘More Housing’

“… if we reduce the affordability requirements, we risk ending up with less housing that everyday people can afford.”

ZION SHERIN July 31, 2025

Opinion: The Soul Of The Community Is Its People

And the people need more roofs over their heads

NED MELANSON July 24, 2025

Opinion: Who Plans The City—And For Whom?

“The assumption that community involvement is a barrier to housing is simply false.”

SUZANNE PRESTON BLIER July 17, 2025

THE BEST OF BINJ: HOUSING & GENTRIFICATION REPORTING

From covering the tiny house movement on Martha’s Vineyard to our series on homelessness in Cambridge

BINJ ONLINE November 6, 2024

APPARENT HORIZON: NO SURPRISE MASSACHUSETTS HAS A HOUSING CRISIS

Just look at what happened to the former East Cambridge courthouse property (now “40 Thorndike”) …

JASON PRAMAS August 8, 2024

50 YEARS OF HOMELESS ADVOCACY IN CAMBRIDGE

An interview with First Church Shelter Director Jim Stewart

ADAM SENNOTT January 9, 2024

UNHOUSED STUDENTS

“The instability of housing for families often creates anxiety and a sense of uncertainty.”

ADAM SENNOTT December 18, 2023

RUNNING A SHELTER, BUT VYING FOR PERMANENT HOUSING

“We’re very under-stocked with housing opportunities. Since we had 52 people in the shelter, getting housing for only 12 of them means that there were a lot left out. So we’re in desperate need of additional housing.”

COHAVIT GIL December 12, 2023

THE WAITING GAME

He’s been to shelters, he has a case worker, doctors will help him—but how much longer can he wait? Meet Billy, one of the many sources informing “Cambridge Unhoused,” who sells Spare Change News in Central Square

CHRIS FARAONE December 5, 2023