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The housing market pendulum that swung low in Boston’s poorest neighborhoods during the Great Recession has swung back and held steady, with a new wave of investors chasing profits and capitalizing on a tight regional supply, according to a new report by the Metropolitan Area Planning Council. By MAPC’s numbers, 21 percent of the Greater Boston homes sold from 2004 to 2018
Somewhere between the migration to the suburbs in the 20th century and the tight housing market of the ongoing “Big Sort,” there was a turning point called “the Big Downzone.” The term is used by public policy consultant Amy Dain in her new report for the Boston Indicators Project at The Boston Foundation, but her urge to decode the language of exclusionary zoning in Boston’s
People vote with their feet. This is true with regard to Boston families with school- age children: Roughly half of the city’s preschool population leaves the city by the time they reach age four. A new study published by the non-profit advocacy group Boston Schools Fund last week provides the latest evidence of the ongoing decline. The percentage of Boston’s population made