Arctaris Annual Impact Report: Building to Endure

Getting Stuck in Massachusetts’ ‘Housing Purgatory’

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Many residents make too little to buy at market rate but too much to qualify for subsidies. 

Massachusetts is now the second most expensive state in the nation for workforce homeownership, trailing only Connecticut. Many working families find themselves trapped in a housing gap — earning too much to qualify for assistance programs, yet not enough to afford a newly built home.

Click here to read the full analysis to learn how construction costs, land-use regulations, and financing constraints are shaping the state’s housing crisis.

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