Center for Housing Data news
Our collaborative effort between Massachusetts Housing Partnership’s Center for Housing Data (CHD), Way Finders, and the Western Massachusetts Housing Coalition launched in 2023 to analyze and better understand development potential in all parts of Berkshire, Franklin, Hampden, and Hampshire counties. The purpose of this memo is to provide a summary of field work conducted in western Massachusetts, offer a methodological overview of our data-driven approach to exploring development opportunities, and present the results of four scenarios that use our novel database to identify and quantify certain types of development opportunities across the four counties in the region.
