OP-ED: Newton’s housing crisis is a collective action problem — and it demands collective solutions

OP-ED: Newton’s housing crisis is a collective action problem — and it demands collective solutions

Across the United States, affordable housing has become a defining crisis of our time. Rising costs, limited supply, and growing economic segregation are reshaping where people can live, work, and raise families. The consequences are no longer abstract: they show up in workforce shortages, longer commutes, declining school enrollments, and, increasingly, outmigration from high-cost states like Massachusetts. Newton is not immune to these forces.…