Two years and 48 research briefs later, this final analysis summarizes eight key findings from the COVID Community Data Lab.

Unprecedented new public funding has helped keep lower-income families in their homes during the pandemic. What can we learn from the state response?

Eviction filing rates by city/town and deployment of rental assistance are uneven.

Public school enrollment in Massachusetts remains 4 percent below pre-pandemic levels. And enrollment in Boston is down 9 percent.

Depending on where the rulemaking process lands, this promising new law could in practice net thousands of new homes – or almost none.

Greater Boston’s biggest growth node straddles the Mystic and Malden Rivers, at the intersections of six cities. No government body is now charged with managing its growth into a coherent, connected, and inclusive place.

Our public health infrastructure in Massachusetts is inadequately funded and our approach is too fragmented across 351 separate cities and towns.

With young children joining work Zooms and parents leaving jobs due to lack of stable childcare, it is time to make systemic change.