| Research and Reports Archives 2006 Reports  NOTE: Resources are often provided in PDF (Portable Document Format) files, which can be viewed or printed using your Web browser and Adobe's Acrobat Reader software. Macintosh and Windows versions of Acrobat Reader may be downloaded free of charge by clicking on the Acrobat Reader icon.The following reports have been prepared by organizations other than CHAPA. For a list of CHAPA publications, click here. 2006 Reports Housing Regulations Database of MA MunicipalitiesPioneer Institute for Public Policy Research and the Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston January 2006 Developing Affordable Housing on Public Land: A Guide for Massachusetts Communities (PDF file) Massachusetts Housing Partnership January 2006 The Affordability Index: A New Tool for Measuring the True Affordability of a Housing Choice (PDF file) The Brookings Institution January 2006 Regulation and the Rise of Housing Prices in Greater Boston (PDF file) by Edward Glaeser, Jenny Schuetz, and Bryce Ward, Harvard University January 6, 2006 The Growing Gap: Income Inequality in Massachusetts (PDF file) Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center January 26, 2006 Housing Affordability Initiative - Land Use Research Findings MIT Center for Real Estate and MHP January 30, 2006 Presentation by Alan Clayton-Matthews on the MA Housing Market (PDF file) - February 8, 2006 Our Homes, Our Communities: How Tenants Preserve, Protect and Steward Public Housing (PDF file) by Massachusetts Union of Public Housing Tenants and the Massachusetts Law Reform Institute February 2006 Guarding the Town Walls: Mechanisms and Motives for Restricting Multi-Family Housing in Massachusetts (PDF file) Jenny Schuetz, Kennedy School of Government March 2006 Locked Out: Keys to Homeownership Elude Many Working Families with Children (PDF file) The Center for Housing Policy March 2006 America's Rental Housing: Homes for a Diverse Nation (PDF file) by Joint Center for Housing Studies, Harvard University March 6, 2006 The Commonwealth of Massachusetts State Plan to End Family Homelessness (PDF file) A Report of the Policy Academy on Family Homelessness April 2006 The Lack of Affordable Housing in New England: How Big a Problem? Why Is It Growing? What Are We Doing About It? Federal Reserve Bank of Boston May 2006 The Economic Impact of Restricting Housing Supply (PDF file) by Edward Glaeser, Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston, Harvard University May 2006 Building Better: Recommendations for Boston's Inclusionary Development Policy (PDF file) by the Massachusetts Association of Community Development Corporations May 2006 State of the Nation’s Housing 2006 Joint Center for Housing Studies, Harvard University June 2006 MIT Center for Real Estate’s Affordability Index for Greater Boston June 2006 Legislative Report on State Public Housing (PDF file) By The Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Subcommittee on Public Housing July 27, 2006 Are States Using the Low Income Housing Tax Credit to Enable Families with Children to Live in Low Poverty and Racially Integrated Neighborhoods? (PDF file) Abt Associates July 28, 2006 Shared Equity Homeownership: The Changing Landscape of Resale-Restricted, Owner-Occupied Housing (PDF file) John Emmeus Davis, Research Fellow National Housing Institute 2006 A Synthesis of Findings from the Study of Affordable Housing Plus Services for Low and Modest-Income Older Adults (PDF file) Institute for the Future of Aging Services, American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging August 2006 The Vicious Cycle: Segregated Housing, Schools, and Intergenerational Inequity (PDF file) Civil Rights Project of Harvard University August 2006 Community Controlled Housing for Massachusetts: Securing Affordability for the Long Term (PDF file) Action for Regional Equity August 2006 Independent State Auditor’s Comprehensive Report on the Physical Condition of and Resources Allocated for the Operation and Upkeep of State-Aided Public Housing in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (PDF file) Auditor of the Commonwealth October 5, 2006 Asset Building Policies in Massachusetts (PDF file) Institute on Assets and Social Policy, The Heller School for Social Policy and Management Brandeis University November 2006 Housing Programs in Weak Market Neighborhoods: Developing the Right Tools for Urban Revitalization (PDF file) Peter Gagliardi, HAP, Inc. December 2006 A Picture of Subsidized Households - 2000 U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's (HUD's) Office of Policy Development and Research December 2006 Out of Reach 2006 National Low Income Housing Coalition December 14, 2006 The Community Preservation Act and Affordable Housing in Massachusetts: Learning from the First Five Years (PDF file) Ann Dillemuth for the Massachusetts Housing Partnership December 15, 2006 State Housing Profiles: A Special Analysis of the Census Bureau's American Community Survey (PDF file) AARP Public Policy Institute 2006 |
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