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• Jul 102009

  Foundation for Growth research project underway

  BOSTON, July 10, 2009 --- Three research teams are working to analyze how much housing Massachusetts needs to grow its economy and what strategies and policies are needed to achieve more robust housing and economic growth.
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• Dec 302008

  Study finds housing a precursor to growth

  BOSTON, Dec. 30, 2008 --- In a forerunner to the Foundation for Growth Initiative, the Massachusetts Housing Partnership commissioned a study that found that the three most important factors in determining metro area employment growth are how much housing the region builds, its success in attracting new residents, and the extent to which it is dependent on manufacturing employment.
  
  
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• Jan 302006

  Land consumption for housing up, 1 acre lots the norm

  BOSTON, Jan. 30, 2006 --- In another MHP-commissioned study that laid the groundwork for the Foundation for Growth initiative, the MIT Center for Real Estate found that between 1998 and 2002, new single-family home construction in the greater Boston metropolitan area consumed about twice as much land as existing single-family housing, and half of the region’s 30,387 recent new single-family homes were built on lots of nearly an acre or larger.
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• Nov 092005

  Smart zoning could save land, lower home prices

  BOSTON, Nov. 9, 2005 --- In one of three studies commissioned by MHP that led to the Foundation for Growth initiative, economist Ed Moscovitch calculated that home prices and land consumption in Massachusetts could be reduced if the state were to adopt smart growthing zoning practices.
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