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Research@Housing Neighborhood/City of Boston Officer of State Auditor Joseph DeNucci, State Auditor's Report on the Physical Condition and Resources Allocated for the Operation and Upkeep of State-Aided Public Housing in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (pdf) (10/06): Reports that under funding of State sponsored public housing units has resulted in deferred maintenance and poor housing conditions. Citizens' Housing and Planning Association, Housing Costs Continue to Outpace Incomes in Massachusetts and the US (pdf) (10/06): Analysis of 2005 American Community Survey data indicates that median housing costs have risen steeply in Massachusetts since 2000. Center for Urban and Regional Policy, Sustaining the Mass Economy (5/06): statistical analyses show that housing costs are a major factor in economic development. Suggests that a small increase in housing supply would moderate price increases now, helping prevent large future price declines. New England Public Policy Center, The Lack of Affordable Housing in New England (5/06): a regional analysis of housing finds that owner-occupied units are especially unaffordable in southern New England. Reviews government strategies and recommends policies to increase housing supply. Rappaport Institute, Massachusetts' Hancock Case and the Adequacy Doctrine (pdf) (3/06): asserts that the "adequacy" doctrine of funding all school districts adequately to yield student achievement will likely give way to the "equity" doctrine, under which the gap in resources between rich and poor school districts will have to be closed. Rappaport Institute, Guarding the Town Walls: Mechanisms and Motives for Restricting Multi-family Housing in Massachusetts (pdf) (3/06): a study of how municipalities in Massachusetts utilize land-use regulations, drawing on the new Massachusetts Housing Regulation Database. New England Public Policy Center policy brief, An Overview of Chapters 40R and 40S: Massachusetts’ Newest Housing Policies (2/06): two recent laws provide financial incentives to increase the housing supply, and the author states that one cannot yet tell if communities will take advantage of the new policies and increase the local supply of housing. Rappaport Institute, Creating an Anti-Growth Regulatory Regime: A Case from Greater Boston (pdf) (2/06): reviews land-use regulation in Arlington, Massachusetts, as a case study in change from a pro-growth system (approving residential projects in the 1960s) to anti-growth governance in the 1970s and beyond. Rappaport Institute, Regulation and the Rise of Housing Prices in Greater Boston (pdf) (2/06): housing prices in Greater Boston have been rising, but supply has not matched it. The authors note that this is a poorly-functioning market, and assert that regulation -- not a lack of land -- has led to the relatively low supply of housing. They conclude with policy recommendations such as letting state or regional entities override local land-use decisions. MIT Center for Real Estate and the Massachusetts Housing Partnership, Housing Affordability Initiative - Land Use Research Findings (1/06): research examining all new residential construction in the Boston metropolitan area between 1998 and 2002 finds that the median lot size for newly-constructed single-family homes is 0.91 acres, up from 0.76 between 1990 and 1998. That is approximately twice the median lot size in the 1970s and 1980s, and the increased lot sizes are keeping real estate prices high. Pioneer Institute and Rappaport Institute, Regulation and the Rise of Housing Prices in Greater Boston (1/06): a study of housing prices from 187 communities in eastern Massachusetts finds that municipal regulation is slowing the supply of new housing and raising prices. |
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