Housing Headlines

SUDBURY --- Concerns over more cars and more school children have caused the Board of Selectmen to decline support of local developer Chris Clausson's plan to pursue a Ch. 40B permit to build 250 units on 39 acres, one of two the town is expected to have to consider in the coming months.

BOSTON --- Governing Magazine takes a look at housing prices in Boston - where triple decker prices are up 85 percent and median rents are up 13.2 percent annually - and asks whether the millennials who have flocked here can afford to stay here?

COHASSET --- Selectmen have begun to review candidates to serve on the local affordable housing trust, but are taking things slowly as they move to revive the trust that has not been in operation since 2008.

FOXBORO --- Thirteen residents have filed an appeal in state Superior Court regarding the Zoning Board of Appeal's recent decision to grant a Ch. 40B comprehensive permit to Hanover Company for the construction of 248 apartments. Known as Domain Foxboro, residents registered a litany of concerns including that the plan was out of character with the neighborhood.

CAMBRIDGE --- In a no-nonsense opinion piece in his hometown Cambridge Chronicle, Northeastern professor and go-to housing expert Barry Bluestone sees the city council election as a series of stark choices between building more housing and exclusionary policies that will allow the rich to get richer.

BOSTON --- The number of students living in East Boston grew by 115 percent between 2006 and 2013, the latest year that complete city data are available. That makes it one of the fast-growing neighborhoods for students, along with Roxbury, Mission Hill, and the Downtown Crossing/Chinatown area.