Kerry Healey was right: We should discuss senior 'overhousing'

Kerry Healey was right: We should discuss senior 'overhousing'

AS MASSACHUSETTS CONTENDS with an enormous crisis of housing affordability and availability, building more homes to bring supply into alignment with demand is essential. Even when market conditions are good, this has been a challenge for the state, with housing starts lagging far behind what’s needed to support a growing population.  But things are poised to get even more difficult. The number of housing units permitted has already fallen by nea…