Data deep dive
Massachusetts has a housing gap of 200,000 homes in just the next decade. With insights into the homes we have, we can better chart the path toward the homes we need.
Housing Navigator MA’s State of Affordable Housing dashboards provide a deep dive on the supply of affordable (income-restricted) rental housing across our state. In our Production FAQ, we’ve collected data on how much affordable (income-restricted) rental housing the state produced in 2024, a total of 2538 units.
60 percent of household growth between 2020 & 2050 will be households making less than $75,000/year*
Data Opens Doors
Housing Navigator MA regularly produces research and analysis relying on our data to better inform choices about affordable housing production and preservation.
- Data Opens Doors: Measuring Our Affordable Housing Gap, completed in collaboration with the Metropolitan Area Planning Council, uses our data to understand for the first time the gap between the supply of affordable rental housing in Massachusetts and the number of households who need it. Find more details about the report here and a link to a storymap with interactive visualizations here.
- Data Opens Doors: Affordable and Accessible Rentals, our first report in the series, provides fresh information about the distribution of this critical resource across the state.
Seek a better future
A stable home is the foundation. We collected this fine-grained data to support our search tool and the thousands of people using it every day to find their way home.
We provide this data for free to support the work of those who care about this critical issue. Whether you are a housing activist, a researcher analyzing a housing program, a journalist who wants facts on the ground, someone searching for an affordable home, or all of the above, we encourage you to leverage our data to take action. If you use our data, please attribute Housing Navigator MA.
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What’s next?
We will update information annually.
Our FAQ/Glossary explains how we created the dataset, identifies known gaps, and provides a glossary.
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*Background statistics taken from the MAPC Regional Growth Projections