Over the last four years, MHP’s Center for Housing Data has been researching and reporting on housing stability in Massachusetts. Amid fluctuating unemployment rates, wavering legal protections, changes to crucial support systems, and ever-growing rents and home sale prices, trends in eviction and foreclosure rates in the Commonwealth deserve regular attention.During the pandemic, MHP established an internal Eviction and Foreclosure Task Force, bringing together staff from across our organization to compile data on eviction and foreclosure rates, discuss changes to key policies and supportive programs, and brainstorm opportunities to better support renters and homeowners across the state.
To date, the Center for Housing Data has released three editions of the Housing Stability Monitor highlighting eviction and foreclosure data across the state’s 351 municipalities. This edition also features a special report on growing homelessness amid elevated eviction filing rates and ongoing shelter capacity concerns.
