@cambridgemass.bsky.social has a housing crisis. Yet unaccountable "Neighborhood Conservation Districts" (NCDs) run by the city drastically decrease housing construction and increase down-converted unit losses compared to equivalent parcels outside NCDs.

dan-sprague.github.io/2025/03/30/ncd

Back on the beat with a story about a dramatic upzoning for Cambridge. It's now legal to build up to four stories, by right, citywide, with an affordable-bonus up for two more stories.

How Cambridge leapfrogged every YIMBY reform to build Haussmann for Harvard:
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

I can’t believe it - after years of advocacy, exclusionary zoning has ended in Cambridge.

We just passed the single most comprehensive rezoning in the US—legalizing multifamily housing up to 6 stories citywide in a Paris style

Here’s the details 🧵

Cambridge residents: The City Council is debating a reform to legalize multifamily housing citywide. Important votes are coming up—please express your support.
✉️ Email council@cambridgema.gov soon
💡 Short emails work great
Learn more: abettercambridge.org/multifamily_housing

#CambMA

A big development in Cambridge politics today: At the ordinance committee hearing on ending exclusionary zoning, pro-housing advocates actually outnumbered opponents 38-28. If you know local housing politics, you know how rare this is - especially for a Wednesday at 2pm. Times are changing.

Thrilled to announce the release of Uprooted: How Post-WWII Population Transfers Remade Europe with Cambridge UP 🎉🎉
The book argues that accommodating the displaced population can strengthen states and benefit local economies in the long run.
📚 [Amazon: tinyurl.com/24m2mbkf]
See thread below:

@profmusgrave.bsky.social Can you add me to polisky? Thanks!