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Promoting abundant housing of all types to stem the affordability crisis.

About Housing

Housing affordability and availability are defining issues across the United States, shaping who can live where and who has access to opportunity and upward mobility. In high-cost states like Massachusetts, rising prices and limited supply have pushed many young families and skilled workers to leave, threatening long-term economic vitality. 

Pioneer’s housing work responds to these challenges in restrictive states like Massachusetts as well as in high-growth states like Florida. We are building an AI-enabled national database of local zoning and environmental regulations—starting here and expanding nationwide by 2027—to identify and remove barriers to new housing. Our research and policy work advance reforms that expand low-cost options such as accessory dwelling units and encourage transit-oriented, mixed-use development. The goal: to retain and attract talent, lower costs, and strengthen opportunity in every community.

January 8, 2026

Pioneer Institute Statement on Mayor Wu’s Decision to Add $100 Million to the Cost of Building a New Madison Park Technical Vocational High School   

Mayor Wu continues to push her effort to further raise Boston’s commercial property tax rate, even though as of 2022 the city already had the second highest ratio of commercial to residential effective tax rates among the largest cities in each state.  Wu claims that cutting Boston’s budget to…
January 8, 2026

Statement of Jim Stergios on New Economic Modeling of Proposed Income Tax Reduction

MassOpportunity Alliance’s new economic modeling of the proposed ballot question to reduce the personal income tax from 5.0% to 4.0% confirms the findings of Pioneer Institute’s November report, Lessons from the 2000 Massachusetts Income-Tax Rollback, which analyzed what actually happened after Massachusetts cut the income tax from 5.95 percent…
December 9, 2025

Massachusetts Subsidized Housing Inventory Update Shows Record Number of Communities Exceed Critical Threshold

This edition of The House Call explores the 2025 update to Massachusetts’ Subsidized Housing Inventory, showing a spike in the number of communities that have at least 10% of their housing stocks in the Inventory. It also explains the housing-related ballot questions that could…
November 19, 2025

Study: Accessory Dwelling Units Now Legal Statewide, but Construction Still Lags

BOSTON – Even after statewide legalization in 2024, production of accessory dwelling units (ADUs) in Massachusetts remains far from that of other states due to local zoning and permitting practices that continue to discourage development, according to a new Pioneer Institute study. 

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