Dataset
Income-Restricted Housing Inventory
This data, maintained by the Mayor’s Office of Housing (MOH), is an inventory of all income-restricted units in the city. This data includes public housing owned by the Boston Housing Authority (BHA), privately- owned housing built with funding from DND and/or on land that was formerly City-owned,…
Dataset
- Publisher
- Mayor's Office of Housing
- Spatial coverage
- all
- Fields
- 16
- Keywords
- Affordable Housing, Housing, Housing a Changing City
- Publisher's page
- https://data.boston.gov/dataset/income-restricted-housing
Artifacts
“Preserved” means the archive holds the bytes and their digest. “Referenced” means it holds the record of them and nothing more. The archive does not claim a holding it cannot prove.
| Format | Preservation | Size | Digest | Source |
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| CSV | referenced | 118206 | 147a7e7abb411ae9f0ff441760dc2c92e88605e1c7400ad3087a1fee5c74c64b | source |
| CSV | referenced | 113058 | ba46bfe1a71ec2fcfa9b465d323d638c61cfda04463becd9b83dc3fe53a14a66 | source |
| CSV | referenced | 113262 | d3fb912eb3cbe5dff9e18559f0969fc5f4ae23037757cdcfb05cd4a4fa7c24e4 | source |
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Column dictionary
The publisher's own dictionary, preserved verbatim. The archive does not reword a schema into its own vocabulary — how the publisher named a column is evidence about the publisher.
| Column | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
Project_Name | text | |
Neighborhood | text | |
Zip Code | text | |
TtlProjUnits | text | |
RentUnits | text | |
OwnUnits | text | |
TtlMarket | text | |
MarketRent | text | |
MarketOwn | text | |
Total Income-Restricted | text | |
Income-Restricted Rental | text | |
Income-Restricted Ownership | text | |
Tenure | text | |
Public/ Private | text | |
Includes Senior Units? | text | |
Section 8 | text |
Identity
- Identifier
- urn:lemay:boston:dataset:income-restricted-housing
- Canonical URL
- https://boston.fyi/dataset/income-restricted-housing
- As JSON
- https://boston.fyi/dataset/income-restricted-housing.json
- Version
- 1 · last changed 2 September 2026
Provenance
- Source
- City of Boston Open Data Portal (Analyze Boston) — source of record
- Licence
- Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0 (public_domain)
- Retrieved
- 2 September 2026
- Source identifier
- income-restricted-housing
- Attribution
- City of Boston
- Rights as stated
- Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and License (PDDL)
Transform ladder
| # | Operation | Description | Tool |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fetch | retrieved the dataset's metadata record from the CKAN package_show endpoint | archive-ingest 0.1.0 |
| 2 | normalize | mapped the portal's catalogue fields onto the archive's Dataset record; the publisher's own wording and column dictionary are preserved verbatim | archive-ingest 0.1.0 |