Boston Globe Spotlight Team A judge yesterday gave Bennett Walsh three months probation, accepting a request that he be allowed to admit to sufficient facts to support a guilty verdict on elder neglect charges, in exchange for the case to be continued without a finding. bostonglobe.com/2024/03/26/met…

A COVID outbreak at the Holyoke home killed 76 veterans that spring — one of the highest death tolls of any US senior-care center. More than a dozen current and former employees and other officials told Boston Globe Spotlight Team Bennett Walsh was unfit for his job. apps.bostonglobe.com/metro/investig…

On March 10, 2020, a state of emergency was declared in Mass. for COVID, warning vulnerable people to avoid big gatherings. The next day at Holyoke Soldiers' Home, a birthday party for superintendent Bennett Walsh had a theme from a movie he loved, “Elf,” with masks of his face

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In Milton, resistance to change has deep roots. “Some see it as a Brigadoon.” To understand what's behind the defiant 'no' vote on multifamily housing, and the stakes for the regional housing crisis, read Boston Globe Spotlight Team's report 'Beyond the Gilded Gate': apps.bostonglobe.com/2023/10/specia…

Three years ago, almost all Boston hospital chiefs had lucrative outside jobs on for-profit corporate boards — far above national levels. Now it's just one: Laurie Glimcher, Dana-Farber CEO & Harvard Medical School professor bostonglobe.com/2024/01/31/met… The Boston Globe Boston Globe Spotlight Team

This #Somerville public housing complex is one of the most ambitious experiments in modular housing in New England. Developers say they’ll deliver it 40% faster, for substantially less cost, than typical in Boston. Boston Globe Spotlight Team on the $600K problem: apps.bostonglobe.com/2023/10/specia…

OMG why does that Boston apartment cost $4,700 a month? It's math: Check out this eye-opening calculator showing how developers pencil out a building, including land, labor, parking, green energy, and affordable housing. Try it yourself: apps.bostonglobe.com/2023/10/specia… Boston Globe Spotlight Team

From Boston Globe Spotlight Team: Many forces drive the housing crisis in Greater Boston, and the sky-high cost of construction is one of the most powerful. Why?

All the rezoning in the world won’t spark a wave of new housing if people can’t make money building it. trib.al/wdmoxl6

For the final story in Boston Globe Spotlight Team's housing series, Tim Logan and I explore the $600,000 problem: why does it cost so much to build housing in Greater Boston, and what can be done about it?

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All the rezoning in the world won’t spark a wave of new housing if people can’t make money building it.

It's a troubling conclusion that leads some in the industry to wonder if it’s time to boldly rethink how we build housing to begin with. apps.bostonglobe.com/2023/10/specia…

Milton's compliance with MBTA communities law encouraging multifamily housing is now in doubt: Opponents of rezoning plan appear to have gathered enough signatures to force a town-wide ballot vote bostonglobe.com/2023/12/19/met… via The Boston Globe The Boston GlobeMark

Holly Bartel remembers the letter under her door after the vote to end #RentControl in MA. She was a Dana-Farber admin. assistant, and it said her rent would roughly double. Boston Globe Spotlight Team on rent control's past, and the urgent debate over its future: apps.bostonglobe.com/2023/10/specia…

Holly Bartel remembers when living in the heart of Boston was affordable.

She paid $561 for a one-bedroom in the '90s. A one-bedroom in that building recently listed for $3,400.

This is a story of a continuing MA fight: rent control. apps.bostonglobe.com/2023/10/specia… The Boston Globe

They paid less than $1,000 for their apartment in Fenway. Then the state abolished rent control.

A Boston Globe Spotlight Team report tells stories of one building's residents, of a Boston that no longer exists, and of an escalating rent cap battle continuing today. trib.al/b1onBPn

Three decades after voters ended #RentControl in Massachusetts, rents have exploded. For renters, only California and Hawaii are more expensive than Massachusetts, per National Low Income Housing Coalition. To afford a modest 2-bed apt. at $2,165 per month in MA, a renter would need to earn almost $42 an hour.

The end of rent control three decades ago helped push many working people out of a Fenway apartment building — and out of Boston.

Their stories speak to one of the causes of the current housing crisis, and to the increasing demands that rent caps return. apps.bostonglobe.com/2023/10/specia…

The end of MA rent control three decades ago helped push many working people out of a Boston apartment building — and the city. Their stories speak to today's housing crisis and to calls for rent control's return. A Boston Globe Spotlight Team report apps.bostonglobe.com/2023/10/specia… via The Boston Globe