Featured Reports
Delayed by Design
How discretionary permitting stalls housing in Massachusetts, even on sites where zoning already allows it.
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Unlocking Small Multifamily Housing through Building Code Reform
How the current building code came to regulate small multifamily housing the same as much larger buildings, the cost implications of that approach, and reforms that could make a difference.
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ADUs Turn One: Regulatory Barriers to production in Massachusetts and Ideas for Further Reform
The state made good progress with ADU legalization, but the law is still quite confusing and could go much further.
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Income and wage trends across the decades.
The state’s middle-income household share is declining, but not for the reason you think.
A Modest Zoning Reform That Works—and Should Be Scaled
Tight zoning has been treated as a preservation strategy, but it fuels mansionization and exacerbates our housing shortage.
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.
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