Resources
To foster a deeper understanding of housing and its relationship to economic growth, the Foundation for Growth initiative maintains a library of resources which includes its own reports, recent news releases and related studies and articles on housing and growth from around the U.S.
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Feb 272013
Action on Housing is Key to Economic Prosperity
An analysis for the Foundation for Growth by MHP Executive Director Clark L. Ziegler on reasons why we struggle to compete with rest of U.S. and what housing reforms can help us realize our potential.
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Mar 142012
Benefits and costs of increasing housing production in Massachusetts (2012)
BOSTON, March 14, 2012 --- As part of its Foundation for Growth initiative, MHP engaged Abt Associates to evaluate the benefits and costs of increasing job growth in Massachusetts to half the projected national rate by 2020 and of allowing sufficient housing production to support that growth. That higher growth scenario was outlined in a previous analysis for MHP by the Donahue Institute at the University of Massachusetts. -
Aug 022011
Testimony: Proposed land use reform a good start
BOSTON ---- In testimony before the state legislature's joint committee on municipalities and regional government, MHP's exeuctive director, Clark Ziegler, said current zoning proposals before the legislature are a good start but don't go far enough in terms of giving Massachusetts the ability it needs to allow enough housing for economic growth. -
Oct 292010
Foundation for Growth Scope A: Housing and Employment
BOSTON, October 29, 2010 --- Research by the UMass Donahue Institute projects how much housing Massachusetts needs to build to achieve optimal economic growth by the year 2020. -
Jul 062010
Report: Metro Monitor -- June 2010
WASHINGTON D.C., July 6, 2010 --- Published quarterly by the Brooking Insitution, the MetroMonitor is an interactive barometer of the health of America’s 100 largest metropolitan economies. It examines trends in metropolitan-level employment, output, and housing conditions to look “beneath the hood” of national economic statistics to portray the diverse metropolitan trajectories of recession and recovery across the country. This edition of the Monitor examines indicators through the first quarter of 2010 (ending in March) in the areas of employment, unemployment, output, home prices, and foreclosure rates for the nation’s 100 largest metropolitan areas. -
Jun 182010
Study: The Economic Benefits of Home Building in Massachusetts
STATE, June 18, 2010 --- Elliot Eisenberg, PhD., senior economist of the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB), recently prepared a report looking at both single-family and condominium new homeownership, and the ways the creation of housing impacts local economies, as well as the state’s economy. -
Jun 162010
Discussion Paper: The Housing Bust and Housing Affordability in New England -- An Update of Housing Affordability Measures
BOSTON, June 16, 2010 --- Written by Robert Clifford, a research associate at the New England Public Policy Center at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, this discussion paper updates the Center's 2006 housing affordability working paper, drawing on housing market data through 2008 to provide an in-depth analysis of housing affordability after the recent housing market bust. -
Jun 162010
Report: State of the Nation's Housing 2010
BOSTON, June 16, 2010 --- The Harvard University-based Joint Center for Housing Studies recently released their annual State of the Nation’s Housing report. -
Jun 152010
Paper: Unaffordable Housing and Local Employment Growth
BOSTON, June 15, 2010 --- Written by researchers Ritashree Chakrabarti and Junfu Zhang out of the New England Public Policy Center at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, this working paper discusses how housing affordability is linked to employment growth and why unaffordable housing could negatively affect employment growth. -
Mar 242010
Study: Paycheck to Paycheck 2010
WASHINGTON, D.C., March 24, 2010 --- Created by the Center for Housing Policy, this regularly-updated study is provided in an online, interactive database format and compares wage information for more than 60 occupations with average home prices and rents in more than 200 metropolitan areas nationwide.
