The outline below organizes housing-related material on this site, especially pertaining to the Affordable Homes Act. For a chronological view of recent material, see our housing thread.
Housing policy summary
Policy-oriented summary of the analyses below (January 2025).
Housing need and supply
- Housing production target
- Subsidized housing inventory
- Housing quantity
- Low Income Housing Supply and Demand (census studies)
- Data on extremely low income renters
- Posts exploring rent burden statistics
- Counting subsidized housing units in Massachusetts (methodology post)
- Census based counts of affordable housing (methodology post)
- Microdata for housing needs assessment (methodology post)
- Low and moderate income population (methodology post)
Support for housing production and preservation
- Summary estimates of subsidy supported production
- State capital spending
- State tax credits to support housing
- Federal low income housing tax credit
- Project based vouchers
- Tax-exempt financing for housing
- Allocation plan for production subsidies
- Transfer tax on housing (not adopted in 2024)
Support for public housing
- Public housing — background
- Planned spending increases
- Spending increases in context
- Policy measures for public housing