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

Graph and download economic data for All-Transactions House Price Index for Boston, MA (MSAD) (ATNHPIUS14454Q) from Q3 1977 to Q2 2025 about Boston, MA, appraisers, HPI, housing, price index, indexes, price, and USA.

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Characteristics:

• Number of Instances: 506

• Number of Attributes: 13 numeric/categorical predictive. The Median Value (attribute 14) is the target.

• Attribute Information (in order): 1. CRIM per capita crime rate by town 2. ZN proportion of residential land zoned for lots over 25,000 sq.ft. 3. INDUS proportion of non-retail business acres per town 4. CHAS Charles River dummy variable (= 1 if tract bounds river; 0 otherwise) 5. NOX nitric oxides concentration (parts per 10 million) 6. RM average number of rooms per dwelling 7. AGE proportion of owner-occupied units built prior to 1940 8. DIS weighted distances to five Boston employment centres 9. RAD index of accessibility to radial highways 10. TAX full-value property-tax rate per $10,000 11. PTRATIO pupil-teacher ratio by town 12. B 1000(Bk - 0.63)^2 where Bk is the proportion of blacks by town 13. LSTAT % lower status of the population 14. PRICE Median value of owner-occupied homes in $1000's

• Missing Attribute Values: None

• Creator: Harrison, D. and Rubinfeld, D.L.

This is a copy of UCI ML housing dataset. This dataset was taken from the StatLib library which is maintained at Carnegie Mellon University. You can find the original research paper here.

Graph and download economic data for Housing Inventory: Active Listing Count Year-Over-Year in Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH (CBSA) (ACTLISCOUYY14460) from Jul 2017 to Jul 2025 about Boston, NH, MA, active listing, listing, and USA.

The median rent for one- and two-bedroom apartments in Boston, Massachusetts, amounted to about ***** U.S. dollars by the end of 2023. Rents decreased slightly after the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic,this trend reversed in 2021 and as of December 2023, the annual rental growth stood at **** percent. Among the different states in the U.S., Massachusetts ranks as one of the most expensive rental markets.

The S&P Case Shiller Boston Home Price Index has risen steadily since *************. The index measures changes in the prices of existing single-family homes. The index value was equal to 100 as of ************, so if the index value is equal to *** in a given month, for example, it means that the house prices have increased by ** percent since 2000. The value of the S&P Case Shiller Boston Home Price Index amounted to nearly ****** in ***********. That was above the national average.

These datasets include information about Airbnb listings in the Boston area processed from data released by insideairbnb.com. Inside Airbnb produces monthly data releases about Airbnb activity for select regions internationally. This data includes listings from Inside Airbnb’s “Boston” and “Cambridge” releases. AIRBNB.Listing is a listing-level file that contains information about the rental properties listed on Airbnb. Listing data has been aggregated across census tracts to generate AIRBNB.CT, which includes ecometrics that describe neighborhoods in terms of listing frequency and pricing .

Housing Inventory: Median Home Size in Square Feet Year-Over-Year in Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH (CBSA) was -3.48% in July of 2025, according to the United States Federal Reserve. Historically, Housing Inventory: Median Home Size in Square Feet Year-Over-Year in Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH (CBSA) reached a record high of 11.94 in February of 2023 and a record low of -16.75 in March of 2021. Trading Economics provides the current actual value, an historical data chart and related indicators for Housing Inventory: Median Home Size in Square Feet Year-Over-Year in Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH (CBSA) - last updated from the United States Federal Reserve on August of 2025.

Housing Inventory: New Listing Count Year-Over-Year in Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH (CBSA) was 2.03% in July of 2025, according to the United States Federal Reserve. Historically, Housing Inventory: New Listing Count Year-Over-Year in Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH (CBSA) reached a record high of 67.84 in April of 2021 and a record low of -48.55 in April of 2020. Trading Economics provides the current actual value, an historical data chart and related indicators for Housing Inventory: New Listing Count Year-Over-Year in Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH (CBSA) - last updated from the United States Federal Reserve on August of 2025.

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Violations on Boston buildings or properties issued by inspectors from the Building and Structures Division of the Inspectional Services Department.

Note: property_id is equivalent to sam_id.

Looking for Public Works violations? Check out this dataset: https://data.boston.gov/dataset/public-works-violations

Housing Inventory: Active Listing Count in Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH (CBSA) was 7286.00000 Level in July of 2025, according to the United States Federal Reserve. Historically, Housing Inventory: Active Listing Count in Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH (CBSA) reached a record high of 11827.00000 in October of 2016 and a record low of 2637.00000 in February of 2022. Trading Economics provides the current actual value, an historical data chart and related indicators for Housing Inventory: Active Listing Count in Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH (CBSA) - last updated from the United States Federal Reserve on September of 2025.

Graph and download economic data for New Private Housing Units Authorized by Building Permits: 1-Unit Structures for Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH (MSA) (BOST625BP1FHSA) from Jan 1988 to Jul 2025 about Boston, NH, privately owned, MA, 1-unit structures, permits, family, buildings, housing, and USA.

Housing Inventory: Price Increased Count in Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH (CBSA) was 68.00000 Level in May of 2025, according to the United States Federal Reserve. Historically, Housing Inventory: Price Increased Count in Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH (CBSA) reached a record high of 348.00000 in July of 2016 and a record low of 28.00000 in December of 2022. Trading Economics provides the current actual value, an historical data chart and related indicators for Housing Inventory: Price Increased Count in Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH (CBSA) - last updated from the United States Federal Reserve on July of 2025.

Graph and download economic data for All-Transactions House Price Index for Massachusetts (MASTHPI) from Q1 1975 to Q2 2025 about MA, appraisers, HPI, housing, price index, indexes, price, and USA.

Housing Inventory: Price Reduced Count in Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH (CBSA) was 2994.00000 Level in June of 2025, according to the United States Federal Reserve. Historically, Housing Inventory: Price Reduced Count in Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH (CBSA) reached a record high of 4808.00000 in September of 2018 and a record low of 332.00000 in January of 2022. Trading Economics provides the current actual value, an historical data chart and related indicators for Housing Inventory: Price Reduced Count in Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH (CBSA) - last updated from the United States Federal Reserve on July of 2025.

New Private Housing Structures Authorized by Building Permits for Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH (MSA) was 816.77519 Units in May of 2025, according to the United States Federal Reserve. Historically, New Private Housing Structures Authorized by Building Permits for Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH (MSA) reached a record high of 2505.50356 in April of 2021 and a record low of 281.94127 in May of 2010. Trading Economics provides the current actual value, an historical data chart and related indicators for New Private Housing Structures Authorized by Building Permits for Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH (MSA) - last updated from the United States Federal Reserve on July of 2025.

Graph and download economic data for Housing Inventory: New Listing Count Month-Over-Month in Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH (CBSA) (NEWLISCOUMM14460) from Jul 2017 to Jul 2025 about Boston, NH, MA, new, listing, and USA.

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.