Commentary: Developers solve for financing, not profit, with dense, multifamily projects

With one new house being built for every three new jobs, and home prices rising faster here than in any other state since 1980, Massachusetts is currently facing a housing crisis decades in the making. Yet, the struggle to create new homes continues.Ongoing outrage over the state’s MBTA Communities Act reinforces the need to dismantle the misinformation that often stops communities from creating multifamily zoning or approving dense multifamily projects. To do that dismantling, we mus