If passed, legalizing smaller lot sizes is estimated to generate 2,200 to 5,700 new homes per year statewide — not a huge amount, but enough to gently ease housing pressure in many communities.
Category: Community Voices
Opinion: Community zoning decisions belong at the local level
There is a distinction between providing communities with the resources to create housing and taking away their authority to decide where that housing should be built.
Opinion: Will the ‘all-party primary’ make Mass. elections more democratic?
With open primaries, third parties, independent and lesser-known candidates will be able to participate on a level playing field with the major parties.
Opinion: South Coast legislative delegation is all about teamwork
Whether it’s designing aquaculture solutions or securing state aid, the few work together to benefit the many.
Opinion: New Bedford’s AI future needs a safety test before a speed test
Employers will earn trust by demonstrating what AI may do, what it cannot do, and when a person must take over.
Essay: Election protection work isn’t flashy — but it is essential
Becoming an election monitor is a nonpartisan way to be engaged in this November’s election.
Opinion: Massachusetts can lead the way to tackle AI’s biggest risks
We don’t have time to waste, given how fast the technology is developing.
Opinion: The Orchestra as a civic institution
To really understand an orchestra’s connection to its community, we need to ask why we care about music.
Opinion: Reopen the investigation of the F/V Mistress
A recent discovery does not, by itself, establish that Block Island Wind Farm Turbine 1 caused the sinking or prevented a rescue. It does demand answers.
Opinion: Let’s grow our neighborhoods from the ground up
Area groups are launching Neighborhood Builders, a local program to cultivate a diverse ecosystem of small-scale developers.


