Amy Dain

Reflecting on @BosIndicators' article, "The Surprising Lack of Good Permitting Data..." @amydain highlights the challenges we create for ourselves by not having good administrative systems in place for tracking building permit numbers at the local level. mapc.org/planning101/ne…

Homebuilding is mission-central for home-short Massachusetts. Data on production plays hide and seek. What to do about it: bostonindicators.org/upzone_update/…

What’s Next After MBTA Communities? bankerandtradesman.com/whats-next-aft…

Latest Upzone Update bostonindicators.org/upzone_update/…

To every one of my neighbors back in Boston, know this: You belong here. This is your home. Boston es tu hogar. Boston se lakay ou. 這是你的家. This is our city. We are the safest major city in the nation because we are safe for everyone. youtu.be/0i21cliuoXo

Commentary: Mayor Michelle Wu is many things: Savvy politician, smart Harvard-trained lawyer, devoted mother. But the description @leung keeps coming back to is the Chinese phrase: Hen li hai, used to describe someone fierce, formidable, and fearless. trib.al/NbRRWgn

Screenshot of letter from MA EOHLC. Deadline now set at July 14 for MBTA Communities compliance with emergency regs, which were filed today.

Join me at this event on zoning and design, at Northeastern. RSVP: bit.ly/zoningbydesign

Congrats and thank you to the team at @MassAGO / @AJCampbellMA for this important win for housing. #mapoli commonwealthbeacon.org/courts/sjc-say…

End-of-the-year Upzone Update. Thank you for reading along. Happy holidays! mbtacommunities.bostonindicators.org/end-of-year-gr…

In this week’s Upzone Update buff.ly/40Ajb9H, Amy Dain looks away from the headline-grabbing, national political news and praises the power of local government.

Public housing news in Greater Boston: bostonglobe.com/2024/11/08/bus…

Upzone Update… mbtacommunities.bostonindicators.org/where-local-de…

@lucschuster shines light on a big question raised over and over at zoning hearings. Check out his Upzone Update cover article this week: mbtacommunities.bostonindicators.org/is-new-housing… @BosIndicators

Existing research finds that new housing construction is usually fiscally net positive. And even in the cases where it isn't, we should probably build the housing anyway :-) A summary of the research + my personal take in the latest Upzone Update: mbtacommunities.bostonindicators.org/is-new-housing…

@kerenhorn Ipswich voted to postpone indefinitely. It means that come January, they will likely be out of compliance based on the state's implementation guidelines. Yes, Boston Indicators has a tracker map: mbtacommunities.bostonindicators.org/tracker-map/

@amydain What does this mean? Are you keeping a tally of all the towns that have passed #MBTACommunitiesZoning?

Argh. Ipswich voted 295-294 to postpone the vote on MBTA Communities zoning.

"Sometimes towns need a bit of a nudge to do the right thing." - Elected Natick Town Meeting Member Natick Town Meeting approved it's MBTA Communities rezoning proposal 85-15-1.

Just looking at some data representations, and remembering that all of those unrelenting 3Ks, month by month, are households, people.