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Housing

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A New Paradigm for Housing in Greater Boston
Abandoned Buildings Report for the City of Boston, 2004
AIDS Housing in New England
Amenity-Based Housing Affordability Indexes
An Environmental Health Survey of Residents in Boston Chinatown
Assessing High House Prices: Bubbles, Fundamentals, and Misperceptions
Attachments, Grievances, Resources, and Efficacy: The Determinants of Tenant Association Participation Among Public Housing Tenants
Borrowing Trouble IV: High-Cost Mortgage Lending in Greater Boston, 2004
Borrowing Trouble VII: Higher Cost Mortgage Lending in Boston, Greater Boston, and Massachusetts, 2005
Boston Among 35 American Cities
Boston at the Crossroads: Racial Trends in the Metropolitan Area in the 1990s and Beyond
Boston's Population: Boston's Housing, Families and Households
Bringing Smart Growth to Massachusetts: Douglas Foy and the Office for Commonwealth Development
Changing Patterns XII: Mortgage Lending to Traditionally Underserved Borrowers and Neighborhoods in Greater Boston, 1990 - 2004
Chapter 40R School Cost Analysis and Proposed Smart Growth School Cost Insurance Supplement
Commercial Land Use in Boston
Community Undesirability in Black and White: Examining Racial Residential Preferences Through Community Perceptions
Completion Report: Boston's Housing Strategy, 2000-2003
Creating an Anti-Growth Regulatory Regime: A Case from Greater Boston
Development Through Public Transit
Dorchester Lead-Safe Yard Project: A Pilot Program to Demonstrate Low-Cost, On-Site Techniques to Reduce Exposure to Lead-Contaminated Soil
Experimental Analysis of Neighborhood Effects on Youth
Fear and Loathing in Massachusetts: Chapter 40B, Community Opposition, and Residential Property Value
Getting Home: Overcoming Regulatory Barriers to Housing in Greater Boston
Guarding the Town Walls: Mechanisms and Motives for Restricting Multi-family Housing in Massachusetts
HIV/AIDS Housing Trends in Greater Boston
House by House, Block by Block
Immigrant Homebuyers in Lawrence and Lowell, Massachusetts: Keys to Revitalization of Cities
Inclusionary Zoning and the Constitution
Large-Lot Housing Construction in the Greater Boston Metropolitan Area
Leading the Way II: A Report on Boston's Housing Strategy 2004-2007
Leading the Way II: Midpoint Progress Report on Boston's Housing Strategy 2004-2005
Leading the Way: Mayor's Report on Boston Housing
Leveraging Opportunity: Implementing a Mixed-Finance Strategy to Preserve and Renovate the Massachusetts State Public Housing System
Metropolitan America in the New Century: Metropolitan and Central City Demographic Shifts Since 2000
Middle Market Rentals: Hiding in Plain Sight
More than Shelter: Housing the People of Greater Boston
Mortgage Lending to Traditionally Underserved Borrowers and Neighborhoods in Greater Boston, 1990 - 2003
Moving to Opportunity and Tranquility: Neighborhood Effects on Adult Self Sufficiency and Health from a Randomized Housing Voucher Experiment
New Estimates of the Demand for Urban Green Space: Implications for Valuing the Environmental Benefits of Boston's Big Dig Project
New Hope and New Politics
On the Demand for City Living
Open Space, Housing Construction and Home Prices: What's the Payoff from Smart Growth?
Out of Control: What Can We Learn from the End of Massachusetts Rent Control?
Partners in Prevention: Community-Wide Homelessness Prevention in Massachusetts and the United States
Property Tax Limits and Local Fiscal Behavior: Did Massachusetts Cities and Towns Spend Too Little on Town Services Under Proposition 2½?
Race, Gender, and Familial Status: Discrimination in One US Mortgage Lending Market
Regulating Subdivisions in Massachusetts: Practices and Outlooks
Regulation and the Rise of Housing Prices in Greater Boston
Regulation and the Rise of Housing Prices in Greater Boston: Policy Brief
Residential Land Use in Boston
Segregation in the Boston Metropolitan Area at the End of the 20th Century
Situation Critical, Report 2000: Meeting the Housing Needs of Lower-Income Massachusetts Residents
Smart Growth: Education, Skilled Workers, and the Future of Cold-Weather Cities
Subprime Mortgage Lending in Greater Boston, 2000 - 2003
Surviving Against the Odds: Families’ Journeys off Welfare and out of Homelessness
Tenancy Rent Control
The Color of Money in Greater Boston: Patterns of Mortgage Lending and Segregated Housing at the Beginning of the New Century
The Greater Boston Housing Report Card 2004: An Assessment of Progress on Housing in the Greater Boston Area
The Miscallocation of Housing Under Rent Control
The Myth of Home Rule: Local Power in Greater Boston
The Politics of Rehabilitation
The Roles of Race, Class, and Residential Preferences in the Neighborhood Racial Composition of Middle-Class Blacks and Whites
The State of the Nation's Housing 2005
Transitions at DTA: Homeless Pilot Programs at the Massachusetts Department of Transitional Assistance (2003-2005)
Urban Growth and Housing Supply
Urban Planning, Community Participation, and the Roxbury Master Plan in Boston
Villa Victoria: The Transformation of Social Capital in a Boston Barrio
Weatherizing the Homes of Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program Clients: A Programmatic Assessment
Who Lives Downtown?
Why Do Households Without Children Support Local Public Schools?

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