Featured Reports
An Early Look at the MBTA Communities Permitting Pipeline
A first look at projects in the early MBTA Communities permitting pipeline to assess what they suggest about future housing production in Massachusetts.
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A Massachusetts Model For Medicaid Work Requirements
The “One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA)” requires every state to adopt new eligibility checks and work requirements, assuming these added hurdles will shrink enrollment and cut spending.
Read the ReportGreater Boston Housing Report Card 2025
This year's report card finds construction up, new permits down, and prices continuing to climb.
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New from Indicators
The Problem of Rental Deserts in Greater Boston, by the Numbers
Rental deserts tend to be dominated by single-family homes and are less racially and economically diverse.
The Surprising Lack of Good Permitting Data and What to Do about It
Homes in the construction pipeline should be readily countable, unlike, for example, grains of sand in Salisbury Beach.
How many homes are we actually building?
An analysis of recent trends in building permits alongside new data on total housing units from the Census Address Count.
Meeting the Moment: SNAP Cuts and the Local Fallout
SNAP changes may cause families to lose some or all of their benefits while costing the state more.
Meeting the Moment: Federal Housing Policies and Massachusetts
Our region’s affordability crisis has largely been caused by insufficient homebuilding, but the federal government plays an important role too.
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