This data, maintained by the Mayor’s Office of Housing (MOH), is an inventory of all income-restricted units in the city. This data includes public housing owned by the Boston Housing Authority (BHA), privately- owned housing built with funding from DND and/or on land that was formerly City-owned, and privately-owned housing built without any City subsidy, e.g., created using Low-Income Housing Tax Credits (LIHTC) or as part of the Inclusionary Development Policy (IDP). Information is gathered from a variety of sources, including the City's IDP list, permitting and completion data from the Inspectional Services Department (ISD), newspaper advertisements for affordable units, Community Economic Development Assistance Corporation’s (CEDAC) Expiring Use list, and project lists from the BHA, the Massachusetts Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD), MassHousing, and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), among others. The data is meant to be as exhaustive and up-to-date as possible, but since many units are not required to report data to the City of Boston, MOH is constantly working to verify and update it. See the data dictionary for more information on the structure of the data and important notes. The database only includes units that have a deed-restriction. It does not include tenant-based (also known as mobile) vouchers, which subsidize rent, but move with the tenant and are not attached to a particular unit. There are over 22,000 tenant-based vouchers in the city of Boston which provide additional affordability to low- and moderate-income households not accounted for here. The Income-Restricted Housing report can be directly accessed here:
https://www.boston.gov/sites/default/files/file/2023/04/Income%20Restricted%20Housing%202022_0.pdf

Learn more about income-restricted housing (as well as other types of affordable housing) here: https://www.boston.gov/affordable-housing-boston#income-restricted

Data and code to replicate the results "How Affordable Housing Can Exclude: The Political Economy of Subsidized Housing." All data on subsidized housing units provided by Housing Navigator Massachusetts (https://housingnavigatorma.org/). All demographic data retrieved from the 2018-2022 American Community Survey 5-year averages.

Comprehensive dataset containing 62 verified Low income housing program businesses in Massachusetts, United States with complete contact information, ratings, reviews, and location data.

Comprehensive dataset containing 10 verified Public housing businesses in Massachusetts, United States with complete contact information, ratings, reviews, and location data.

Financial overview and grant giving statistics of Massachusetts Affordable Housing Alliance Inc.

Graph and download economic data for All-Transactions House Price Index for Massachusetts (MASTHPI) from Q1 1975 to Q3 2025 about MA, appraisers, HPI, housing, price index, indexes, price, and USA.

Graph and download economic data for All-Transactions House Price Index for Essex County, MA (ATNHPIUS25009A) from 1975 to 2024 about Essex County, MA; Boston; MA; HPI; housing; price index; indexes; price; and USA.

Financial overview and grant giving statistics of Southeastern Massachusetts Affordable Housing Corporation

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This dataset was created by Gabriel Bittencourt

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Graph and download economic data for New Private Housing Units Authorized by Building Permits for Massachusetts (MABPPRIVSA) from Jan 1988 to Aug 2025 about MA, permits, buildings, new, private, housing, and USA.

Coastal Risk Screening Tool: Affordable HousingThe affordable housing map allows users to explore what affordable housing in the U.S. could be threatened by sea level rise and coastal flooding in the coming decades, under multiple pollution scenarios. The map allows users to examine affordable housing at risk by state, city, county, congressional district, state legislative district, or zip code.

Graph and download economic data for All-Transactions House Price Index for Middlesex County, MA (ATNHPIUS25017A) from 1975 to 2024 about Middlesex County, MA; Boston; MA; HPI; housing; price index; indexes; price; and USA.

Housing unit estimates, Census Bureau 2004

2025 HUD Fair Market Rents (FMR) for Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher Program in Massachusetts. Includes rent limits by city and county for studio through 4-bedroom units.

Graph and download economic data for New Private Housing Units Authorized by Building Permits: 1-Unit Structures for Massachusetts (MABP1FH) from Jan 1988 to Aug 2025 about privately owned, MA, 1-unit structures, permits, family, buildings, housing, and USA.

2025 HUD Fair Market Rents (FMR) for Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher Program in Lowell, MA. Includes rent limits by zip code for studio through 4-bedroom units.

Abstract Many researches have shown that social housing projects (SHP) developed in Brazil have not been meeting the users' real needs. As a consequence, many adaptations and extensions have been made that imply spending already scarce funds for this segment of the population. Moreover, very often, it results in poor quality housing. This article presents results of a study which aimed to verify the applicability of Mass Customization (MC), used by the manufacturing industry for being more effective in meeting customer demands, in the context of SHP production in the Minha Casa Minha VIda project (MCMVP). The research consisted of a literature review, searching for a conceptual overview of MC, as well as the development of a case study in a housing company. This study comprised a requirements analysis of a two-year SHP company to verify the characteristics and diversity of users´ requirements not met, and an information flow map from registering families interested in SHP (demand) to handing over the keys to the families and identifying barriers and opportunities of using MC. The results indicate the applicability of the segmented MC and, using prefabricated technology, the possibility of including specific requirements of the client before handing over the keys.

Financial overview and grant giving statistics of M & A Affordable Housing Inc.

2025 HUD Fair Market Rents (FMR) for Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher Program in Worcester, MA. Includes rent limits by zip code for studio through 4-bedroom units.

2025 HUD Fair Market Rents (FMR) for Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher Program in Providence Fall River, MA. Includes rent limits by zip code for studio through 4-bedroom units.