As he prepared to move, Globe housing reporter Andrew Brinker waded through thousands of listings, unresponsive brokers, and fierce competition with other tenants.

The question had gathered enough momentum to bring powerful real estate groups to the bargaining table to discuss a compromise.

Healey’s comments, made at a forum hosted by the Service Employees International Union, came a few weeks after a group of tenant advocates and high-powered real estate developers floated a plan that w...

This November, Massachusetts voters may be faced with a ballot question that could impose a statewide cap on annual rent increases. The Globe wants to hear your thoughts.

After a surge of affordable housing development in recent years, the money that helps pay for it all is drying up amid the city’s broader development slowdown.

Lexington is set to add at least 1,600 new apartments and condominiums in the coming years.

Fire codes have long required two staircases in mid-rise apartment buildings. But advocates worry that drives up construction costs. So the state will study doing away with one.

Some tenant advocates are hoping lawmakers will take up a legislative compromise to enact a version of rent control while avoiding a bruising ballot fight.

Many towns have been divided over the MBTA Communities Act, but few as badly as Winthrop.

The Globe is looking to speak with renters in Greater Boston about their experience searching for a home.

Most housing authorities in the state have recently stopped issuing new Section 8 vouchers when tenants give them up, and some are closing waitlists for new applicants.

The state’s combination of slow population growth and sky-high prices would seem to contradict the basic laws of supply and demand.

Housing is so expensive to build right now that some developers say the city's requirement that 20 percent of units be aside at below-market rents is making otherwise profitable projects too costly.

Faced with a supply crunch and rising costs, the state has taken steps to make housing more plentiful and more affordable.

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A group of city councilors invited a group of their colleagues north to help figure out how Boston might dig out of its deep housing shortage the way Austin is.