A study by Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies has thrown important light on the nation’s affordable housing problem. Released this month, the study focuses specifically on rents, which have been soaring over the last few years, even as the median income of renters has fallen. The supply of available units has failed to keep […]

This is the season to think about our ambitions for the coming year. Between family gatherings, holiday festivities and shopping, we ask ourselves in the back of our minds what goals we’d like to achieve. If you’d asked Drew Sfirri two years ago about his goals, he would have had no answer. He had attended […]

To the Editor: Would someone please answer me who’s idea was it to buy the Bowdoin College building and again never did their homework on what it would cost us to renovate it. Why the cost of $992,032, when it’s a new building? Who made out on this deal? Bowdoin, of course, as usual. And […]

To the Editor: Ten years ago, my son, Edward Moll III, did a structural survey of the Chocolate Church Arts Center. He is a principal of Structures North, an architectural firm in Salem, Mass. He did wood borings of the main structural beams at that time and found a lot of rot. He estimated the […]