Merrimack Valley Housing Report

Publications and Resources

Below are links to publications and other resources on regional housing issues, including newspaper and journal articles, reports and academic research.

Publications

• A Framework to Guide Sustainable Housing Development (pdf)
• What Foreclosed Homes Should a Municipality Purchase to Stabilize Vulnerable Neighborhoods? (pdf)
• Foreclosures Cast Long Shadow Across NE Region (pdf)
• The Benefits of Building Green (pdf)
• Meeting Lowell's Housing Needs: A Comprehensive Look (pdf)
• Homeless for the Holidays (pdf)
• The UMass Lowell Effect: How One University Could Help Revitalize Lowell's Housing Stock (pdf)
• Greater Lowell and Affordable Housing: Problems, Prospects, Possibilities (pdf)

Video

• Tent Cities: A Sustainable Form of Affordable Housing?

Academic Research

• "Community Based Responses to the Foreclosure Crisis: A Focus on Community Development Corporations in Massachusetts" by Emily Vidrine (pdf)
• "The Julian D. Steele Housing Complex in Lowell, Massachusetts: Tenant Outcomes From 1995-2009" by Craig Thomas (pdf)