October
3
2008
ONE Mortgage - Income documentation
List of communities that require Income Eligibility Certificates.
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October
1
2008
The State of the Massachusetts Housing Market: A Statewide and Regional Analysis
This report takes a thorough look at current housing market fundamentals across seven regions of the state to project the likely demand for housing production needed through 2012. The report was designed to inform the Commonwealth's ongoing policy efforts to meet housing needs and promote economic growth and development and not as a snapshot of current housing conditions across the Commonwealth.
September
22
2008
The Central Role of Home Prices in the Current Financial Crisis: How Will the Market Clear?
Author Karl Case, an economist from Wellesley College, describes and discusses distinguishing characteristics of housing markets that will contribute to determining prices going forward.
July
16
2008
Economic Impacts of Restricting Housing Supply
This report, written by Harvard economics professor Edward Glaeser, concludes that if greater Boston does choose to continue limiting growth, it should be aware that it will end up with a small region, with highly volatile prices and that big price increases are likely to decreases in future prices and incomes.
July
16
2008
Housing Supplies and Housing Bubbles
This report, authored by Edward Glaeser, Joseph Gyourko, and Albert Saiz, examines the relationship between housing bubbles and limitations on growth. The researchers use data on both regulations and natural barriers to building, such as hilliness, to classify metropolitan areas as places where builders face few limits, like Houston, and regions where builders are extremely restricted, like Boston. There is a strong link between housing bubbles and restrictions on development.
March
1
2008
Annual Report - 2007
Titled "Making Ends Meet", this report includes six essays on how housing has helped people make it in Massachusetts. Essays focus on projects in Chelsea, Springfield, Groton, Stoughton and Lawrence. Reporter also includes a profile on the SoftSecond Loan Program's 10,000th borrower.