Biogen’s global headquarters is located in Cambridge. The longer we delay in addressing our housing affordability and availability crisis, the more Massachusetts companies will expand to states that offer more housing options and demonstrate a path to producing more housing.

“We were looking around thinking we had just left nonsensical Bay Area housing policies. Yet we arrived in Austin to find those same nonsensical policies.” Nicole Nosek Texans for Reasonable Solutions

"I cannot think of something so essential to American life [housing]... where the Government has created the shortage on purpose and then strokes it's chin confused as to why there is a shortage... There is a shortage because of us." - Senator Brian Schatz

Zoning reform is often framed as a battle—“eliminate,” “abolish,” “overturn.” But what if we shifted the language? What if instead of subtraction, we talked about addition? Let’s talk about additive language and why it matters. 🧵

The "Build More Housing Near Transit Act," from Senator Brian Schatz (D-HI) & Senator Jim Banks (R-IN), would boost applications for transit grants that include pro-housing reforms like removing parking mandates, streamlining approvals, decreasing min lot sizes, & raising height limits.

"A strong body of evidence suggests Boston is becoming a place for the rich, who can afford the city’s exorbitant prices, and the poor, who qualify for subsidies. What about everyone else?" - The Boston Globe Editorial Board

"There was some pushback as far as 'changing the neighborhood' but I think that just came out of fear, the fear of change. I started to say... listen... no housing, no healthcare." 📍Martha's Vineyard, MA

Knoxville, Memphis, Jackson, Chattanooga, & now Nashville have each adopted single-stair reforms. This comes after a 2024 state law allowed cities to update their building codes to permit single-stair buildings up to six floors with a maximum of four units per floor. 📍Tennessee