EVIDENCE BASED PLANNING

PUTTING HOUSING NEEDS ASSESSMENTS AND

HEALTH DATA TO WORK FOR YOUR COMMUNITY

MHP and its Center for housing data team have created several tools that are exportable to communities large and small across the nation that are wrestling with the housing crisis: 

·         DataTown – housing and demographic information for all 351 MA communities, including a feature that allows users to compare communities.

 

·         Transit-Oriented Explorer (TODEX) – allows users to review densities around all 261 Greater Boston transit stations, with a recommendation that 250,000 more units could be created if the overall unit average around these stations were boosted from the current six units per acre to 10 units per acre.

 

·         Residensity (coming in Aug-Sept) – An expanded version of TODEX that makes it possible for users to do analysis and draw zoning districts for every parcel of land in Massachusetts.