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Housing Overview
Housing - Goals and Measures
6.1 Retaining Boston’s Competitive Advantage in Housing
6.2 Housing Affordable to All Residents
6.3 An Adequate Housing Supply
6.4 Adequate Housing Production
6.5 Homelessness Prevention
6.6 Equitable Distribution of Affordable Housing
6.7 Fair Housing
6.8 Healthy Homes and Neighborhoods
6.9 Public Funding for Housing
 

Housing is one of the most basic of human needs. All cultures in the world, no matter how diverse in other respects, have invented ways to shelter their people. It is in homes that people create a foundation of family and friends, a sense of belonging in and to a place.  And if housing is not available, these most basic ties to family, place and community are put under tremendous stress.

Housing costs in Boston and the region have risen dramatically. Residents are divided into two camps: those who already own homes — particularly those who purchased them before the run up in prices — and those who do not and are being squeezed by rising rents or priced out of the housing market. Among the latter, some are moving to less expensive regions, some are living in overcrowded conditions, some are finding themselves homeless, and many are spending a growing percentage of their income on housing.

OVERVIEW

Metro Boston’s housing costs are among the highest in the nation

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New release: "The Greater Boston Housing Report Card 2003: An Assessment of Progress on Housing in the Greater Boston Area."  Download the full report or  read the press release.

Access to education and services critical for homeless children, according to Horizons for Homeless Children

Report, recommendations to increase housing supply in Commonwealth released

Housing Report Card finds continuing imbalances in supply and affordability in Greater Boston

Report provides in-depth analysis of Greater Boston's housing crisis
 
   


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