Everett Sets a Standard for Housing Production

By Tom Schultz, AIA, NCARB, CPHC, Managing Principal

With persistent and overlapping issues of supply and affordability, it isn’t news to anyone that housing shortages are one of the key challenges facing cities and towns nationwide. Massachusetts is certainly not immune to these issues, and many municipalities still lag on housing growth. In fact, a report last year by the MassINC Policy Center found that the state’s 26 Gateway Cities need to effectively double housing production over the next decade in order to meet the demand. Yet some of these communities are already stepping up. Everett, just north of Boston, has been credited with building more new housing than almost anywhere else in the state across the past five years. What lessons can public officials, real estate and business leaders, and the experts who support them learn from this Gateway City’s success?

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Tom Schultz, AIA, NCARB, CPHC®, is a principal at The Architectural Team, Inc. (TAT), an award-winning firm based in Chelsea, Massachusetts. With more than two decades of national experience in multifamily and mixed-use planning and design across cities of all scales, Schultz is regarded as an expert in highly complex development initiatives that contribute to economic growth and revitalization.