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Letters

Bidding wars … unbridled greed … how does rent control sound now?

Bidding wars in the Boston rental market are not just caused by a housing shortage. Let’s talk about how those who invest in housing are profiting off of hard-working people.

Ideas

Making too little to get affordable housing — and other problems with trying to stay in Boston

As the cost of living drives friends out of the city, I’m eyeing apartment applications with a creeping sense of hopelessness.

OpEds

Student homelessness can be reduced. Here’s how.

The Family-Led Stability Initiative has housed the families of 450 students attending 12 schools and is on track to house the families of another 500 students in the next three years.

Editorials

Campbell puts towns on notice: MBTA housing law isn’t optional

Truculent municipalities told they can’t opt out of rule requiring them to allow multifamily development around transit.

Letters

Brookline is a key battleground in state’s new housing law

"The MBTA Communities law’s anti-urban guidelines threaten our beloved local businesses and existing moderately priced housing," writes one Brookline resident. Another writes, "Brookline clearly needs more development that would enable even middle-class residents, such as our own kids, to find affordable alternatives in town."

Letters

Solution to our housing puzzle will take host of policies, approaches

Everyone must understand the value of a range of housing options and price points and build support for the policies that create them, inclusionary zoning among them.

Letters

In clashes over new housing, can we turn down volume on foes’ voices?

People who attend neighborhood meetings, zoning hearings, and similar public forums do not necessarily represent the broader community.

Letters

For tenants already on edge, a 10% rent hike is not ‘stabilization’

What we need is pure rent control, protecting tenants from rent increases that are imposed for no reason except that the landlord wants more profit.