September
10
2005
In September 2005, Gloucester-based economist Edward Moscovitch quantified how Massachusetts could drive down prices and stop eating up land in football-field sized chunks if it adopted smart growth production policies.
March
1
2005
Includes essays on helping Truro use town land for housing, revitalizing neighborhoods through redevelopment in Worcester, a 40B in Hyannis and smart preservation in Cambridge, Mayor Menino leading the way in Boston, and SoftSecond providing affordable homeownership in Lawrence.
January
1
2005
Authors Karl Case, John Quigley and Robert Shiller examine the link between increases in housing wealth, financial wealth and consumer spending.
March
1
2004
Includes essays about small-scale financing in Chesterfield, redeveloping a school into housing with help from CHI in Acton, preserving the affordability of 200 units in Salem, the importance of creating partnerships to develop 250 units in Lowell, Home Funders to help developers reach lower-income families in Gloucester, and SoftSecond making a difference in Newton.
January
1
2004
Published in 2004, MHP created this guide to help community members effectively organize a housing partnership.
October
30
2003
In this report, the Commonwealth Housing Task Force describes a severe housing affordability problem that has an impact both on low and moderate income households and scientists, engineers, doctors and business people in Massachusetts. The authors argue that the housing problem is affecting the future economic stability of the state. Further, they contend that the problem is not caused by a lack of financing or land but results from restrictive zoning, which results from local governments’ fear of the adverse impact on town finances that will result from development.