PITTSFIELD — There are a breadth of housing assistance and income-restriction programs in the Berkshires. There is Section 8 housing, the Massachusetts Rental Voucher Program, workforce housing and ...

In 1983, Harvard scholars Mary Jo Bane and David Ellwood sought to determine the length of time participants in Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) spent in the program. Their report, ...

New provisions in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act could help finance more than a million units of low-income housing over the next decade. The changes are complicated but will increase assistance both ...

Affordable housing development and preservation can be channeled toward areas where construction costs or income conditions would otherwise hinder such initiatives. Some of the tools policymakers use ...

A three-year waiting list for subsidized housing. Fair market rents 60% higher than before the pandemic. Working couples who ...

Manufactured homes could help address the nation’s critical housing shortage, but outdated state laws often prevent manufactured home buyers from obtaining a mortgage, thus limiting the reach of one ...