Michael Hoban

Michael Hoban is a Boston-based commercial real estate and AEC writer and founder and principal of Hoban Communications. Contact him at [email protected].

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Development and Construction

Affordable Housing

New England Mayors Facing Cities’ Affordable Housing Shortage

Despite a regional economy that is faring better than that in much of the United States, many of New England’s major cities are struggling to provide enough affordable housing for their middle-income workforce.

May 25, 2016

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Michael Hoban

Economy, Market & Trends

Residential

Housing 9 Million New Renters in the United States

According to a report by Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies, the United States has seen an unprecedented increase in those living in rental housing, with nearly 9 million rental households added since 2005. While private lending has increased in the sector, new construction is largely focused on the higher end of the market.

February 26, 2016

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Michael Hoban

Design and Planning

Community and Neighborhood Development

ULI Boston Report Outlines Barriers, Solutions to Rising Seas

Despite the record harsh winter of 2014–2015 that dumped 111 inches (281 cm) of snow on the city of Boston and the not-so-distant (2012) memory of the near-hit of Hurricane Sandy, instituting measures to safeguard against the effects of climate change and rising seas will not be an easy sell with the region’s utilities, property owners, government agencies, or general public.

November 23, 2015

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Michael Hoban

Design and Planning

Residential

Choice Neighborhoods: Redeveloping Boston’s Quincy Corridor

A development in Boston is the first of the five initial Choice Neighborhoods projects to be completed when HUD Secretary Julián Castro cut the ribbon on Quincy Heights, a 129-unit scattered-site housing redevelopment in Dorchester’s Quincy Corridor.

August 10, 2015

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Michael Hoban

Design and Planning

What Can Boston Learn from Other Cities’ Olympic Bids?

While the amount of public financing that would be required to stage the 2024 Summer Olympic Games in Boston remains an open question, ULI Boston/New England recently hosted a panel discussion focused on how such bids have paved the way for badly needed infrastructure and development projects in other cities.

June 11, 2015

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Michael Hoban

Urban Land Contributors