Housing Affordability Initiative (HAI)
Annual Housing Affordability Conferences and other Events
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Past Housing Conference Information
Many Chapter 40B Projects Aren’t Being Built: Center Releases Landmark Study on 40B & Litigation
May 22, 2007
This conference released the results of an unprecedented examination of the "life histories" of Chapter 40B Comprehensive Permit Applications for the Boston Metropolitan Area since 1999, and also revealed new affordability indexes that expanded the scope of the index family into other parts of New England.
2nd Annual Housing Affordability Conference
May 25, 2006
Building on last year's conference, this conference released the latest housing affordability index. The index included rental and owner-occupied units in the Boston metropolitan area, new measures of quality of life, and was poised for expansion into other parts of New England.
1st Annual Housing Affordability Conference
May 25, 2005
The Housing Affordability Initiative (HAI) at MIT's Center for Real Estate was launched in 2004. HAI has spent much of its first year developing an intellectually honest and realistically achievable definition of "affordable" for the Boston metropolitan area. To date, the result of this effort is a prototype Rental Housing Affordability Index, a unique rating that combines both availability of affordable housing and proximity to employment in a single numeric score.
