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Report | Neighborhoods and Housing | Demographics

Greater Boston Housing Report Card 2022

October 26th, 2022 Anne Calef Peter Ciurczak Luc Schuster

Greater Boston struggles with a lack of affordable housing, as tight inventory and rising costs place significant burdens on homebuyers and renters.

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Report | Jobs and Economic Development

Care Work in Massachusetts: A Call for Racial and Economic Justice for a Neglected Sector

September 1st, 2022 Anne Calef Luc Schuster

Care workers provide supports that every person requires at some point, whether in infancy, illness, disability, or old age.

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Article | Neighborhoods and Housing

Residential overcrowding has increased regionwide as housing affordability declines.

December 14, 2022 Luc Schuster

Residential overcrowding increased almost 90 percent in Suffolk County from 2010 to 2021.

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Article | Demographics

Voter Engagement in Massachusetts

November 07, 2022 Peter Ciurczak

Voter turnout is much higher for “on-cycle” elections when federal elections are on the ballot.

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Article | Neighborhoods and Housing

High Home Prices and Rising Interest Rates Push Homeownership Further Out of Reach in Greater Boston

November 02, 2022 Daniel McCue, Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies

Record-high house prices and sharp mortgage rate increases risk exacerbating racial wealth gaps.

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Article | Economy

Massachusetts shows progress on poverty, but remains worse than 21 other states due to high cost of living

September 21, 2022 Anne Calef

New data from the Census show that we continue to make gradual progress on reducing poverty, but the absolute level remains unnecessarily high.

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