Housing

Even with ambitious state investment in subsidized housing, we can subsidize only about 10% of the new housing units that we need to bring down rents and home prices.

HUD microdata confirm that rent burdened households are less numerous than commonly reported and less concentrated among the ELI population.

The housing supply gap for Very Low Income and Low Income populations may be considerably greater than the gap for the Extremely Low Income.

This post explores data about households that report to the American Community Survey that they are paying more than 80% of their income in rent — the “Unsustainably Rent Burdened.”

This post explores American Survey Community data pertaining to extremely low income renters in Massachusetts.

This post is a technical note on methodological issues in using Census public use microdata for housing needs assessment.