The MBTA Communities Act requires 177 towns and cities to draw at least one zoning district that allows multifamily housing by right near public transportation. These communities were placed into one ...

The Duxbury Selectboard has decided not to appeal the Massachusetts Superior Court judge’s ruling Friday that dismissed its lawsuit challenging the MBTA Communities Act as an unfunded mandate. In his ...

On June 6, a Superior Court judge dismissed lawsuits from by nine towns challenging the MBTA Communities law. Here's why. The ...

A Superior Court judge concluded the possible costs of the MBTA Communities Act are "indirect," which means the law is not an unfunded mandate, and that grant programs are available to help shoulder ...

The Superior Court sided with the Massachusetts AG's office, dismissing lawsuits against the MBTA Communities Law, which ...

MBTA Communities Law certainly has legs for something that is mass transit related. The debate is equally fast paced and slow ...

Lawsuits — filed by the towns of Duxbury, Hamilton, Hanson, Holden, Marshfield, Middleton, Wenham, Weston, and Wrentham — ...

A series of lawsuits by Massachusetts towns claiming the MBTA Communities Act is an unfunded mandate have been thrown out by ...

Toms River is using some of the $9 million it has in its Affordable Housing Trust Fund to help convince property owners to ...

Officials say that a new initiative to make public land available to developers could create more than 3,500 new housing ...