Featured Reports
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.
Read the ReportAn 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 ReportNew from Indicators
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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