[Massplanners] [**EXT**] Housing Production vs. School Enrollment

[Eric Salerno]

Good afternoon,

This is something we all combat, so I try and make an effort to save
reports and data that help shed some light on the financial realities of
housing. I'm glad I caught this question since I recalled there was a
presentation on this at the Housing Institute from folks at the
UMass Dartmouth Public Policy Center, two years ago, but at the time, it
wasn't complete. A quick search for the title turned up the final report -
please see Page 21 in the MassBenchmarks Journal 2019 volume 21 Issue 1
<https://donahue.umass.edu/documents/MB_072919_low-re.pdf>: *The Fiscal
Impact of New Housing Production in Massachusetts*. (I haven't had time to
read it in detail yet, but I am sure it supports the 2017 report that you
already mentioned, since they reference it... printing out a copy for
myself now, actually.)

I have also seen communities that have requested anonymous student data
from the school district and manually correlated it with assessor's data to
illustrate what types of housing (# of bedrooms) students live in - to
prove the point that higher density, mainly 2 bedroom units do not impact
school enrollment much, if at all.

Lastly, I want to note that I was truly taken aback in a relatively recent
meeting when it became clear that the opponents to housing have no
functional understanding of how the school budget works, and as such, have
a completely unfounded and inaccurate perception of what the incremental
cost of additional students are. I completely overestimated the public's
understanding of what "per student/per pupil costs" represent. A topic that
might help with some educational outreach if that's also the case in
Middleborough.

Good luck with the project.
-Eric

Eric Salerno
Town Planner/Dir. Eco. Dev't.
Town Hall, 25 Bryant Ln.
Tyngsborough, MA 01879
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On Mon, Jun 7, 2021 at 11:46 AM Richard McCarthy <rmccarthy at norfolk.ma.us>
wrote:

> Good morning Leeann,
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> I’m happy to report we just passed high density housing in town center
> that meets Housing Choice requirements.  We had a similar issue here.  What
> we did was reach out to the School Department and have the run enrollment
> for a few developments.  We only have one mixed use building so it is
> limited.  Another option is to reach out to whomever runs school
> enrollments projections for the school system.  I did have them look at a
> couple of development scenarios to give us some projections.
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> I would suggest reaching out to Bill Reyelt as well.  As I understand it
> your neighbor Lakeville and another town are the only ones that met the 40S
> requirements for payments.  Good luck.
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> *From:* MassPlanners [mailto:massplanners-bounces at masscptc.org] *On
> Behalf Of *Leeann Bradley
> *Sent:* Monday, June 7, 2021 11:10 AM
> *To:* Massplanners Listserve
> *Subject:* [Massplanners] Housing Production vs. School Enrollment
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> Good Morning,
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> Looking for information on housing production v. school enrollment.  I
> have MAPC’s October 2017 research brief with metrics but wondering if there
> is anything a bit more recent.  Middleborough is now an MBTA community with
> a new train station under construction.  We are TRYING to implement a 40R
> overlay surrounding the train station but are having enormous pushback with
> regard to a perceived explosion of children in the school system.  Thank
> you so much.
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> Leeann
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> Leeann Bradley
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