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

The American Housing Survey was first conducted in 1973. Between 1973 and 1981 it was conducted every year and was called the Annual Housing Survey. The last even-numbered year for the national survey was 1980. Since 1981, the survey has been conducted every other year. In 1984, the name was changed to the American Housing Survey. The 1997 national data are from a sample of housing units interviewed between August and November 1997. The CD-ROM contains data files in both SAS. and ASCII format s. The 1998 American Housing Survey Metropolitan Sample (AHS-MS)provides information on 15 metropolitan areas interviewed as part of the American Housing Survey (AHS),which was conducted by the U.S.Census Bureau for the Department of Housing and Urban Development. These metropolitan areas are: Baltimore, MD Birmingham, AL Boston, MA-NH Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN Houston, TX Minneapolis-St.Paul, MN-WI Norfolk-Virginia Beach-Newport News, VA-NC Oakland, CA Providence-Pawtucket-Warwick, RI-MA Rochester, NY Salt Lake City, UT San Francisco, CA San Jose, CA Tampa-St.Petersburg, FL, and Washington DC-MD-VA.

Note to Users: This CD is part of a collection located in the Data Archive of the Odum Institute for Research in Social Science, at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The collection is located in Room 10, Manning Hall. Users may check the CDs out subscribing to the honor system. Items can be checked out for a period of two weeks. Loan forms are located adjacent to the collection.