There are several forms, regulations and data associated with the Emergency Assistance (EA) Family Shelter Program for our business partners and constituents.

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

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

Explore available grants and financial assistance programs for single mothers in Massachusetts. This dataset estimates how much a single-parent family of 2 earning $0/month may receive in cash aid, food support, child care assistance, utility relief, and Medicaid coverage.

Economically-Relevant Components Affecting Housing Location in Mass Housing Planning

This map service is based on the Long Term Care Residences point datalayer and contains the locations of licensed nursing homes, rest homes and assisted living residences in Massachusetts.Long-term care residences provide housing and services for individuals who are managing illness and/or disability attributed to physical and/or mental health conditions. While terminology may vary, generally long-term care facilities are distinguished by the type of medical and custodial (non-medical services such as dressing, bathing, etc.) care they provide, the relative independence of their residents, and the types of on-site amenities. Furthermore, some facilities cater to specific patient populations (e.g. Alzheimer's patients).For the purposes of this datalayer, a nursing home is defined as a residential facility that provides 24-hour nursing care, rehabilitative services and activities of daily living to the chronically ill who require a relatively high level of institutional support. A rest home provides 24-hour supervision and supportive services for individuals who do not routinely need nursing or medical care. Similarly, assisted living residences provide residents with housing and various daily living support services, but usually do not offer medical care. Assisted living residences often emphasize greater autonomy and privacy for residents through individual apartment-style rentals. Other residential facilities that provide long term care such as group homes (i.e. boarding homes or congregate housing) and hospice facilities are not explicitly specified in this datalayer. Many locations in this datalayer, however, may offer additional services ranging from independent retirement living to intensive skilled nursing and palliative care. Non-residential care locations such as adult day health, rehabilitation, and senior centers are omitted.See the datalayer's full metadata for more information.A Map Service also is available.

FEMA ESF#6 Shelter System (Formerly known as the FEMA National Shelter System)Emergency Support Function (ESF) #6 – Mass Care, Emergency Assistance, Temporary Housing, and Human Services coordinates and provides life-sustaining resources, essential services, and statutory programs when the needs of disaster survivors exceed local, state, tribal, territorial, and insular area government capabilities. Mass care, emergency assistance, temporary housing, and human services agencies and organizations at the local, state, tribal, territorial, insular area, and Federal levels work together to provide life-sustaining assistance to disaster survivors. The four primary functions of ESF #6 are: Mass Care: Congregate sheltering, feeding, distribution of emergency supplies, and reunification of children with their parent(s)/legal guardians and adults with their families.Emergency Assistance: Coordination of voluntary organizations and unsolicited donations and management of unaffiliated volunteers; essential community relief services; non-congregate and transitional sheltering; support to individuals with disabilities and others with access and functional needs in congregate facilities; support to children in disasters; support to mass evacuations; and support for the rescue, transportation, care, shelter, and essential needs of household pets and service animals. Temporary Housing: Temporary housing options including rental, repair, and loan assistance; replacement; factory-built housing; semi-permanent construction; referrals; identification and provision of safe, secure, functional and physically-accessible housing; and access to other sources of temporary housing assistance. Human Services: Disaster assistance programs that help survivors address unmet disaster-caused needs and/or non-housing losses through loans and grants; also includes supplemental nutrition assistance, crisis counseling, disaster case management, disaster unemployment, disaster legal services, and other state and Federal human services programs and benefits to survivors. Federal ESF #6 agencies are linked closely with two Recovery Support Functions (RSFs) defined in the National Disaster Recovery Framework: (1) Housing and (2) Health and Social Services. Following an incident, these RSFs may be activated concurrently with ESF #6, although their initial focus will be on planning and information sharing rather than response. When active at the same time, the ESFs and RSFs collaborate and share information while focusing on their respective functions. There is intentional overlap between ESF and RSF missions but as ESF requirements diminish, RSFs assume the residual ESF activities that are associated with recovery. The timing of this transition depends on the scope of the incident and the needs of survivors. ESF #6 works closely with the Housing RSF to coordinate the transition of survivors from sheltering and temporary housing to long-term and permanent housing as quickly as possible. ESF #6 also coordinates closely with the Health and Social Services RSF to ensure continuous support for social services needs in the impacted communities.

Comprehensive dataset containing 333 verified Housing complex businesses in Massachusetts, United States with complete contact information, ratings, reviews, and location data.

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This dataset was created by Gabriel Bittencourt

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Translating Locational Environmental Components into Architectural Design in Mass Housing Planning

Estimated maximum benefit levels for a single-parent family of two in massachusetts with no income.

Graph and download economic data for Housing Inventory: Median Listing Price in Massachusetts (MEDLISPRIMA) from Jul 2016 to Oct 2025 about MA, listing, median, price, and USA.

Housing unit estimates, Census Bureau 2004

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 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.

Graph and download economic data for Housing Inventory: Median Listing Price in Suffolk County, MA (MEDLISPRI25025) from Jul 2016 to Oct 2025 about Suffolk County, MA; Boston; MA; listing; median; price; and USA.

Graph and download economic data for Housing Inventory: Active Listing Count in Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH (CBSA) (ACTLISCOU14460) from Jul 2016 to Oct 2025 about Boston, NH, MA, active listing, listing, and USA.