Greater Boston may be building more homes, but that hasn’t made it any easier to find an affordable place to live. A new Boston Foundation report released Wednesday finds that while housing construction is up, new building permits are slowing — and affordability continues to slip further out of reach.

The report also examines how cities and towns are responding to the state’s MBTA Communities Act, finding that while many have changed zoning rules to comply, few have actually turned those plans into new housing.

“By requiring zoning changes but not the creation of new housing, the state both respected local control over housing policy and provided loopholes,” said Katherine Levine Einstein, associate professor and co-director of the Boston University Initiative on Cities, in a statemen

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