The wrong level of government—small cities and towns, rather than the state—is making too many of our important housing policy decisions. This paper offers one concrete model for how the state can take a more proactive role in setting land use regulations.
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Through this research partnership, we’re scanning the best available data sources to analyze how our communities have changed since the onset of the COVID-19 crisis in early March.
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Food insecurity has doubled during the pandemic, with Black and Latinx food insecurity at roughly 25 percent.
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While it appears that eviction moratoriums are helping push landlords to consider negotiating, these private, piecemeal negotiations are only stopgap measures.
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Rents are down in Boston but up elsewhere in the region.
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There are about 800,000 frontline workers in Massachusetts, over half of whom work in health care.
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