Affordable Homes Act Economic Impact: The Executive Office of Housing and Livable Communities (EOHLC) commissioned the institute to estimate the economic impacts of the proposed Affordable Homes Act (AHA). Together, EOHLC and the institute developed assumptions about the amount of new spending authorized, leveraged, enabled, and unlocked by the AHA. That spending was then run through an economic impact model to estimate the direct, indirect, and induced economic impacts of the AHA and its associated activities and programs.

UMass Economic Contribution Analysis - FY 22: The 5-campus University of Massachusetts impact is $8.3 billion with nearly 40,000 external jobs across Massachusetts.

Construction-Related Trades and Union Occupations in the Greater Brockton Region: The MassHire Greater Brockton Workforce Board hired the institute to provide a high‐level landscape assessment of the ‘trades’ sector including the demographic makeup of the workforce, employment trends, the role of unions in construction and related trades, and current barriers to individuals seeking work in union and trades occupations.