Get Involved in Supporting Housing!

You too can help make Somerville a place for everyone

Our Broken Time-ocracy

How participatory democracy results in unequal outcomes

Vote Yes on Question 7!

Support Starter Homes Across the State

A City In Amber

How one commission raises costs for everyone

Downsize with Dignity

How to build to support our older neighbors

The Missing Middle of Somerville

An incremental step of progress

The Construction Cliff

Small dense homes are more expensive than they should be to build.

What is Driving us to Drive?

Parking matters a lot

Does New Housing Lose Money for Somerville?

How do our taxes show our priorities?

The Two Lenses of IZ

And a possible prescription to see them together

Construction is like an onion

It’s full of layers

What Fraud Tell Us About Gentrification

Unfreeze the Permits

Our glacial pace of review makes housing even more expensive.

They Build Homes Too Big! They Build Homes Too Small!

There is a method to the madness actually

If We Don’t Build Here, Then Where?

The housing still gets built, but the impacts change

Factors of Upzoning

Where would we see the most construction if we allowed it citywide?

The Basic Economics of Home Building

How to estimate how the sausage gets made

The Future of NOAH

The status quo cannot save it.

Who Actually Builds Our Affordable Housing

The answer may surprise you

A Delicate Dance

No, we can't ask greedy developers to solve every problem

What the heck is going on with Backyard Cottages

An intensive debate on a unexpected subject

No Vacancy

It’s a tenant’s rights issue

The Displacement Time Bomb

It's already here, just waiting to go off

Is Somerville Full?

How does density feel?

Displacement versus Displacement

Different causes, different solutions