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

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

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 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.

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

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 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.

Housing unit estimates, Census Bureau 2004

Petition subject: Racial discrimination Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:25455108 Date of creation: (unknown) Petition location: Massachusetts Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Katharine D. Kane, Boston; committee on urban affairs Selected signatures:Massachusetts Committee on Discrimination in HousingKatharine D. KaneMartin A. Linsky Actions taken on dates: 1968-01-03,1968-01-04,1968-03-27 Legislative action: Received in the House on January 3, 1968 and referred to the committee on urban affairs and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on January 4, 1968 and concurred and received in the House on March 27, 1968 and recommitted Total signatures: 7 Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred, received, recommitted Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 1 Female signatures: 1 Unidentified signatures: 5 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: Massachusetts Committee on Discrimination in Housing, Massachusetts Chapter Americans for Democratic Action, Massachusetts Federation for Fair Housing and Equal Rights, American Friends Service Committee, United Church of Christ, [females], ["others"] Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed Signatory column format: not column separated Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available Additional archivist notes: amendment of the housing authority law, includes addresses, towns next to names including Boston, West Concord, Roxbury, Norfolk county Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: St. 1968, c.249, passed May 8, 1968 Acknowledgements: Supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-5105612), Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, Center for American Political Studies at Harvard University, Institutional Development Initiative at Harvard University, and Harvard University Library.

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.

These datasets include information about housing listings on Craigslist for the state of Massachusetts processed from data scraped by BARI. This release includes listings for all five Massachusetts regions designated by Craigslist (Boston, Cape Cod, South Coast, Western Mass, and Worcester). CRAIGSLIST.Listings is a listing-level file that contains information about housing listings posted on Craigslist. Listing data has been aggregated across census tracts to generate CRAIGSLIST.CT, which includes ecometrics that describe neighborhoods in terms of listing frequency and property value.

1 computer laser optical disc ; 4 3/4 in. Provides census data designed and formatted for use in legislative redistricting. Census counts, for areas as small as blocks, census tracts, and voting districts, include totals for population, race groups, persons of Hispanic origin, population 18 years and over, and housing units.

Graph and download economic data for Home Vacancy Rate for Massachusetts (MAHVAC) from 1986 to 2024 about vacancy, MA, housing, rate, and USA.

This Long Term Care Residences point datalayer contains the locations of licensed nursing homes (NH), rest homes (RH), and assisted living facilities (ALF) in Massachusetts. Data on nursing homes and rest homes was by provided by Phil Mello, Division of Health Care Quality (DHCQ), Massachusetts Department of Public Health. A list of assisted living facilities information was provided by Beth Shelton, Massachusetts Executive Office of Elder Affairs. The update published in March of 2007 is based on listing as of May 2006 for ALF data and February 2007 for NH and RH data.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 facilities provide residents with housing and various daily living support services, but usually do not offer medical care. Assisted living facilities 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.The MassGIS metadata page for this layer can be seen here.

Graph and download economic data for Homeownership Rate for Massachusetts (MAHOWN) from 1984 to 2024 about homeownership, MA, housing, rate, and USA.

In 2025, households in California needed an hourly wage of over 50 U.S. dollars to afford the rent of a two-bedroom apartment. Hawaii had the second-least affordable two-bedroom apartments, as a household would have to earn at least around 49 U.S. dollars per hour in order to afford rent payments. These figures are considerably higher than the average minimum wage in place in many states. There was no state in which a minimum wageworker could afford rent for the average two-bedroom apartment, if they worked 40 hours a week. Where are the least affordable counties and metros? The least affordable rents were predominately in Californian counties and metropolitan areas in 2025. District of Columbia has the highest minimum wages in the country, which stood at 17.5 U.S. dollars per hour as of January 2025. Thus, the affordability of two-bedroom apartments highlights how disproportionately high housing costs are in the state.

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.

Graph and download economic data for All-Transactions House Price Index for Plymouth County, MA (ATNHPIUS25023A) from 1975 to 2024 about Plymouth County, MA; Boston; MA; HPI; housing; price index; indexes; price; and USA.

Graph and download economic data for New Private Housing Structures Authorized by Building Permits for Essex County, MA (BPPRIV025009) from 1990 to 2024 about Essex County, MA; Boston; MA; permits; buildings; private; housing; and USA.