EVIDENCE BASED PLANNING

PUTTING HOUSING NEEDS ASSESSMENTS AND

HEALTH DATA TO WORK FOR YOUR COMMUNITY

The Massachusetts Housing Partnership (MHP) has created a user-friendly resource that helps communities to analyze housing data to assess what their community needs: https://www.housingtoolbox.org/assessing-needs 

“A housing needs assessment is one of the first things we recommend because it focuses a community on understanding its housing needs and how it can use local, state and federal resources to build housing to meet those needs.

The Massachusetts Housing Partnership’s housing toolbox was created to be an A-Z clearinghouse of resources we have created to guide communities through the affordable housing development process, from understanding need to creating zoning to providing local funds to support affordable housing development efforts,” said Ruston Lodi, MHP Director of Public Affairs.