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HUD Inspection Scores, 2009
HUD's Real Estate Assessment Center conducts physical property inspections of properties that are owned, insured or subsidized by HUD, including public housing and multifamily assisted housing. About 20,000 such inspections are conducted each year to ensure that assisted families have housing that is decent, safe, sanitary and in good repair. Separate datasets are available for public housing and for multifamily assisted properties. These data layers provide the results of those inspections for 2009, property identifiers, and location information.
 
   
 
Home Foreclosure Auctions, FY2008, Municipal
The Massachusetts Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD) has released the number of foreclosure auctions in every municipality in the state for Fiscal Year 2008. The data is derived from information produced by the Warren Group. It was released as part of DHCD's planning process to distribute the state's allocation of the Neighborhood Stabilization Program funds. The dataset includes for each municipality the number of foreclosure auctions in FY2008, the percent of all foreclosure auctions in the state, number of Block Groups with 10 foreclosure auctions, number of housing units from Census 2000, and the number of foreclosure auctions per thousand housing units.
 
   
 
Home Mortgage Disclosure Act Data, 2006
In cooperation with the Urban Institute as part of the National Neighborhood Indicators Partnership, MAPC offers this dataset collected under the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA). This dataset contains information on home mortgage lending practices through the Boston Metro area in 2006, including the total number of loan applications, demographic information about loan applicants, and the proportion of loans issued to various demographic groups. Other indicators of interest include percent of all loans originated (issued) by subprime lending specialists, and loan denial rates. Data are available by census tract.
 
   
 
Banker and Tradesman Housing Sales Data, 1988-2008, Municipal
These datalayers include all home sales, condominium sales, and single family home sales from 1988-2008, at the municipal level. The information contains the median home price,yearly percent change of median home price, and number of home sales. The data of Boston is from Department of Neighborhood Development, City of Boston.
 
   
 
Census Housing Data, 1990 & 2000
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U.S. Census Data
These datalayers include housing data from 1990 and 2000 at the municipal level, and housing data of 2000 at the census tract level.    
   
 
Census Building Permits Data, 1990-2007
These datalayers include census building permits data from 1990-2006, at the municipal level. The building permits data include residential, single family, 2-4 family, and 5+ family housing unit permits.    
   
 
Average Single Family Tax Data, 2000-2007
This datalayer contains single family tax information from 2000 to 2007, including single family parcels, average value, tax rate, and tax bill. Average single family tax bills are calculated by dividing the single family assessed value by the single family parcels for each community and then multiplying the average value by the residential tax rate and dividing by one thousand. The information of 13 communities that have adopted a residential exemption are not available from this database, because they do not submit adequate data to determine an average tax bill.    
 
USPS Residential Vacancy Rate, 2008
Data source:
USPS/HUD
This layer features the total number of residential addresses, numbers vacant, and percent of residential addresses vacant. The data source is the U.S. Postal Service. Available on the site is the vacancy rate on June 30, 2008.    
   
   
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