A Long Road Home: A Racial Equity Analysis of Homeownership Support Programs in Massachusetts

The latest report from Boston Indicators, entitled A Long Road Home: A Racial Equity Analysis of Homeownership Support Programs in Massachusetts, tracks the historical racial gap in homeownership to today and provides a thorough landscape scan of affordable homeownership programs in Massachusetts, diving more deeply into four programs: Massachusetts Housing Partnership’s ONE Mortgage, MassHousing’s Workforce Advantage mortgage program, the Massachusetts Affordable Housing Alliance’s STASH program, and the state’s MassDREAMS down payment assistance program.

In addition, the report includes policy recommendations and a short video where prospective homebuyers share their first-hand experiences navigating what can be an intimidating and complicated system that these support programs are striving to address.