September
10
2021
FY22 goals
MHP's agency goals for fiscal year 2022.
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February
28
2021
Housing Choice legislation at a glance
Our friends at the Metropolitan Area Planning Council have put together an explainer on the 2020 Housing Choice legislation, filed by Gov. Charlie Baker and modified by the legislature.
February
11
2021
Rent changes: Boston vs. Gateway Cities during COVID-19
In a brief for the COVID Community Data Lab, Gateway Cities expert Tracy Corley and Tom Hopper of MHP's Center for Housing Data show how rents have decreased in many Greater Boston neighborhoods while they have increased in some lower cost Gateway Cities markets.
December
8
2020
MHP comments on proposed MBTA service reductions
BOSTON, Dec. 4, 2020, --- MHP Executive Director Clark Ziegler submitted written comments on the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority's proposed service reductions. "MHP is concerned that the proposed service cuts -- even if reversed at a later date -- would undermine decades of state policy to promote housing development near transit," wrote Ziegler.
December
4
2020
COVID Community Data Lab
Since May, MHP's Center for Housing Data has been doing analysis for the COVID Community Data Lab, an initiative of Boston Indicators, the research arm of The Boston Foundation. MHP has been tracking housing stability metrics such as housing vacancies, rent prices, ability to pay and most recently the rise in evictions to pre-pandemic levels since the end of the state's moratorium. Check here for the lab's latest report on the pandemic's impact and policy proposals aimed at achieving an inclusive recovery.
December
1
2020
Research brief & Transit-Oriented Development Explorer (TODEX)
Launched in Dec. 2019, MHP's Transit-Oriented Developer Explorer (TODEX) is a detailed research brief and an interesting, easy-to-use housing density transit station locator map rolled into one. Envisioned by MHP Director of Research and Analytics Tom Hopper, the research brief explains the new methodology that was used to estimate the number of homes around transit stops while the mapping tool allows users to see housing densities at all 261 Greater Boston transit stops. One conclusion - which we sometimes call a thought experiment - is that if we increased density at all transit stops to 10 units per acre, we'd net about 250,000 more units.