March
1
2011
Celebrating MHP's 25th anniversary, this report includes essays on rental financing efforts in Springfield, Worcester, Boston, Chelsea, and Sharon. The report also includes the profile of a Lawrence family that bought their first home with a SoftSecond loan.
October
29
2010
BOSTON, March 14, 2012 --- MHP engaged Abt Associates to evaluate the benefits and costs of increasing job growth in Massachusetts to half the projected national rate by 2020 and of allowing sufficient housing production to support that growth. That higher growth scenario was outlined in a previous analysis for MHP by the Donahue Institute at the University of Massachusetts.
October
29
2010
Research by the UMass Donahue Institute projects how much housing Massachusetts needs to build to achieve optimal economic growth by the year 2020.
June
25
2010
A fact sheet about the work of the Yarmouth Affordable Housing Trust.
June
16
2010
Written by Robert Clifford, a research associate at the New England Public Policy Center at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, this discussion paper updates the Center's 2006 housing affordability working paper, drawing on housing market data through 2008 to provide an in-depth analysis of housing affordability after the recent housing market bust. The paper's results show that as New England's housing prices have declined, affordability has been returning to the pre-housing crisis levels of the early 2000s. However, declining prices nationwide continue to make owner-occupied housing in most New England states less affordable than in the nation.
June
15
2010
Written by researchers Ritashree Chakrabarti and Junfu Zhang, out of the New England Public Policy Center at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, this working paper discusses how housing affordability is linked to employment growth and why unaffordable housing could negatively affect employment growth. The effect is empirically measured using data on California municipalities and U.S. metropolitan areas and counties.