diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index d83c3d5e4..0a9bc9e62 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -156,7 +156,7 @@ Collate:
     'TaskGeneratorSpirals.R'
     'TaskGeneratorXor.R'
     'TaskRegr.R'
-    'TaskRegr_boston_housing.R'
+    'TaskRegr_ames_housing.R'
     'TaskRegr_mtcars.R'
     'TaskUnsupervised.R'
     'as_benchmark_result.R'
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index 5a65e7e34..2fe2a8002 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 # mlr3 (development version)
 
 * fix: Quantiles must not ascend with probabilities.
+* refactor: Replace `tsk("boston_housing")` with `tsk("ames_housing")`.
 
 # mlr3 0.21.1
 
diff --git a/R/PredictionRegr.R b/R/PredictionRegr.R
index 62a599aff..53ceb792c 100644
--- a/R/PredictionRegr.R
+++ b/R/PredictionRegr.R
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 #' @template seealso_prediction
 #' @export
 #' @examples
-#' task = tsk("boston_housing")
+#' task = tsk("ames_housing")
 #' learner = lrn("regr.featureless", predict_type = "se")
 #' p = learner$train(task)$predict(task)
 #' p$predict_types
diff --git a/R/Task.R b/R/Task.R
index c0bc73fd5..da439e3ec 100644
--- a/R/Task.R
+++ b/R/Task.R
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
 #'    For example, for a classification task a single column must be marked as target column, and others as features.
 #'
 #' Predefined (toy) tasks are stored in the [dictionary][mlr3misc::Dictionary] [mlr_tasks],
-#' e.g. [`penguins`][mlr_tasks_penguins] or [`boston_housing`][mlr_tasks_boston_housing].
+#' e.g. [`penguins`][mlr_tasks_penguins] or [`ames_housing`][mlr_tasks_ames_housing].
 #' More toy tasks can be found in the dictionary after loading \CRANpkg{mlr3data}.
 #'
 #' @template param_id
diff --git a/R/TaskRegr_ames_housing.R b/R/TaskRegr_ames_housing.R
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..dfd14ceef
--- /dev/null
+++ b/R/TaskRegr_ames_housing.R
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+#' @title House Sales in Ames, Iowa
+#'
+#' @name ames_housing
+#' @format [R6::R6Class] inheriting from [TaskRegr].
+#' @aliases mlr_tasks_ames_housing
+#'
+#' @description
+#' A regression task to predict house sale prices for Ames, Iowa.
+#' This is the processed version from the [AmesHousing::make_ames()] package.
+#'
+#' Contains 80 features and 2930 observations.
+#' Target column is `"Sale_Price"`.
+#'
+#' @section Construction:
+#' ```
+#' mlr_tasks$get("ames_housing")
+#' tsk("ames_housing")
+#' ```
+#'
+#' @section Meta Information:
+#' `r rd_info(tsk("ames_housing"))`
+#'
+#' @template seealso_task
+NULL
+
+load_task_ames_housing = function(id = "ames_housing") {
+  b = as_data_backend(readRDS(system.file("extdata", "ames_housing.rds", package = "mlr3")))
+  task = mlr3::TaskRegr$new(id, b, target = "Sale_Price", label = "Ames House Sales")
+  b$hash = task$man = "mlr3::mlr_tasks_ames_housing"
+  task
+}
+
+#' @include mlr_tasks.R
+mlr_tasks$add("ames_housing", load_task_ames_housing)
+
diff --git a/R/TaskRegr_boston_housing.R b/R/TaskRegr_boston_housing.R
deleted file mode 100644
index ec2866343..000000000
--- a/R/TaskRegr_boston_housing.R
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,33 +0,0 @@
-#' @title Boston Housing Regression Task
-#'
-#' @name mlr_tasks_boston_housing
-#' @format [R6::R6Class] inheriting from [TaskRegr].
-#' @include mlr_tasks.R
-#'
-#'
-#' @description
-#' A regression task for the [mlbench::BostonHousing2] data set.
-#' This is the corrected data using the corrected median value (`cmedv`) as target.
-#' The uncorrected target (`medv`) is removed from the data.
-#'
-#' @section Construction:
-#' ```
-#' mlr_tasks$get("boston_housing")
-#' tsk("boston_housing")
-#' ```
-#'
-#' @section Meta Information:
-#' `r rd_info(tsk("boston_housing"))`
-#'
-#' @template seealso_task
-NULL
-
-load_task_boston_housing = function(id = "boston_housing") {
-  b = as_data_backend(remove_named(load_dataset("BostonHousing2", "mlbench"), "medv"))
-  task = TaskRegr$new(id, b, target = "cmedv", label = "Boston Housing Prices")
-  b$hash = task$man = "mlr3::mlr_tasks_boston_housing"
-  task
-}
-
-#' @include mlr_tasks.R
-mlr_tasks$add("boston_housing", load_task_boston_housing)
diff --git a/R/partition.R b/R/partition.R
index 908566bfa..f115338f5 100644
--- a/R/partition.R
+++ b/R/partition.R
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
 #' @export
 #' @examples
 #' # regression task partitioned into training and test set
-#' task = tsk("boston_housing")
+#' task = tsk("ames_housing")
 #' split = partition(task, ratio = 0.5)
 #' data = data.frame(
 #'   y = c(task$truth(split$train), task$truth(split$test)),
diff --git a/inst/extdata/ames_housing.R b/inst/extdata/ames_housing.R
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..2dfba4791
--- /dev/null
+++ b/inst/extdata/ames_housing.R
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+root = rprojroot::find_package_root_file()
+data = setDT(AmesHousing::make_ames())
+saveRDS(data, file = file.path(root, "inst", "extdata", "ames_housing.rds"), version = 2L)
diff --git a/inst/extdata/ames_housing.rds b/inst/extdata/ames_housing.rds
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..ad9d8e5f7
Binary files /dev/null and b/inst/extdata/ames_housing.rds differ
diff --git a/man/PredictionRegr.Rd b/man/PredictionRegr.Rd
index dc8a02e3d..e3ae6eb2f 100644
--- a/man/PredictionRegr.Rd
+++ b/man/PredictionRegr.Rd
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ the predicted response and standard error.
 Additionally, probability distributions implemented in package \code{distr6} are supported.
 }
 \examples{
-task = tsk("boston_housing")
+task = tsk("ames_housing")
 learner = lrn("regr.featureless", predict_type = "se")
 p = learner$train(task)$predict(task)
 p$predict_types
diff --git a/man/Task.Rd b/man/Task.Rd
index bfa5279a8..1e8b81002 100644
--- a/man/Task.Rd
+++ b/man/Task.Rd
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ For example, for a classification task a single column must be marked as target
 }
 
 Predefined (toy) tasks are stored in the \link[mlr3misc:Dictionary]{dictionary} \link{mlr_tasks},
-e.g. \code{\link[=mlr_tasks_penguins]{penguins}} or \code{\link[=mlr_tasks_boston_housing]{boston_housing}}.
+e.g. \code{\link[=mlr_tasks_penguins]{penguins}} or \code{\link[=mlr_tasks_ames_housing]{ames_housing}}.
 More toy tasks can be found in the dictionary after loading \CRANpkg{mlr3data}.
 }
 \section{S3 methods}{
@@ -92,8 +92,8 @@ Other Task:
 \code{\link{TaskRegr}},
 \code{\link{TaskSupervised}},
 \code{\link{TaskUnsupervised}},
+\code{\link{ames_housing}},
 \code{\link{mlr_tasks}},
-\code{\link{mlr_tasks_boston_housing}},
 \code{\link{mlr_tasks_breast_cancer}},
 \code{\link{mlr_tasks_german_credit}},
 \code{\link{mlr_tasks_iris}},
diff --git a/man/TaskClassif.Rd b/man/TaskClassif.Rd
index 207607fa3..1f540d1b9 100644
--- a/man/TaskClassif.Rd
+++ b/man/TaskClassif.Rd
@@ -50,8 +50,8 @@ Other Task:
 \code{\link{TaskRegr}},
 \code{\link{TaskSupervised}},
 \code{\link{TaskUnsupervised}},
+\code{\link{ames_housing}},
 \code{\link{mlr_tasks}},
-\code{\link{mlr_tasks_boston_housing}},
 \code{\link{mlr_tasks_breast_cancer}},
 \code{\link{mlr_tasks_german_credit}},
 \code{\link{mlr_tasks_iris}},
diff --git a/man/TaskRegr.Rd b/man/TaskRegr.Rd
index 4648223ea..bf96bb1f8 100644
--- a/man/TaskRegr.Rd
+++ b/man/TaskRegr.Rd
@@ -40,8 +40,8 @@ Other Task:
 \code{\link{TaskClassif}},
 \code{\link{TaskSupervised}},
 \code{\link{TaskUnsupervised}},
+\code{\link{ames_housing}},
 \code{\link{mlr_tasks}},
-\code{\link{mlr_tasks_boston_housing}},
 \code{\link{mlr_tasks_breast_cancer}},
 \code{\link{mlr_tasks_german_credit}},
 \code{\link{mlr_tasks_iris}},
diff --git a/man/TaskSupervised.Rd b/man/TaskSupervised.Rd
index 27c4df854..e3936ba7e 100644
--- a/man/TaskSupervised.Rd
+++ b/man/TaskSupervised.Rd
@@ -35,8 +35,8 @@ Other Task:
 \code{\link{TaskClassif}},
 \code{\link{TaskRegr}},
 \code{\link{TaskUnsupervised}},
+\code{\link{ames_housing}},
 \code{\link{mlr_tasks}},
-\code{\link{mlr_tasks_boston_housing}},
 \code{\link{mlr_tasks_breast_cancer}},
 \code{\link{mlr_tasks_german_credit}},
 \code{\link{mlr_tasks_iris}},
diff --git a/man/TaskUnsupervised.Rd b/man/TaskUnsupervised.Rd
index 488f8acee..e94e1d9e7 100644
--- a/man/TaskUnsupervised.Rd
+++ b/man/TaskUnsupervised.Rd
@@ -31,8 +31,8 @@ Other Task:
 \code{\link{TaskClassif}},
 \code{\link{TaskRegr}},
 \code{\link{TaskSupervised}},
+\code{\link{ames_housing}},
 \code{\link{mlr_tasks}},
-\code{\link{mlr_tasks_boston_housing}},
 \code{\link{mlr_tasks_breast_cancer}},
 \code{\link{mlr_tasks_german_credit}},
 \code{\link{mlr_tasks_iris}},
diff --git a/man/ames_housing.Rd b/man/ames_housing.Rd
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e7ba22559
--- /dev/null
+++ b/man/ames_housing.Rd
@@ -0,0 +1,72 @@
+% Generated by roxygen2: do not edit by hand
+% Please edit documentation in R/TaskRegr_ames_housing.R
+\name{ames_housing}
+\alias{ames_housing}
+\alias{mlr_tasks_ames_housing}
+\title{House Sales in Ames, Iowa}
+\format{
+\link[R6:R6Class]{R6::R6Class} inheriting from \link{TaskRegr}.
+}
+\description{
+A regression task to predict house sale prices for Ames, Iowa.
+This is the processed version from the \code{\link[AmesHousing:make_ames]{AmesHousing::make_ames()}} package.
+
+Contains 80 features and 2930 observations.
+Target column is \code{"Sale_Price"}.
+}
+\section{Construction}{
+
+
+\if{html}{\out{<div class="sourceCode">}}\preformatted{mlr_tasks$get("ames_housing")
+tsk("ames_housing")
+}\if{html}{\out{</div>}}
+}
+
+\section{Meta Information}{
+
+\itemize{
+\item Task type: \dQuote{regr}
+\item Dimensions: 2930x81
+\item Properties: -
+\item Has Missings: \code{FALSE}
+\item Target: \dQuote{Sale_Price}
+\item Features: \dQuote{Alley}, \dQuote{Bedroom_AbvGr}, \dQuote{Bldg_Type}, \dQuote{BsmtFin_SF_1}, \dQuote{BsmtFin_SF_2}, \dQuote{BsmtFin_Type_1}, \dQuote{BsmtFin_Type_2}, \dQuote{Bsmt_Cond}, \dQuote{Bsmt_Exposure}, \dQuote{Bsmt_Full_Bath}, \dQuote{Bsmt_Half_Bath}, \dQuote{Bsmt_Qual}, \dQuote{Bsmt_Unf_SF}, \dQuote{Central_Air}, \dQuote{Condition_1}, \dQuote{Condition_2}, \dQuote{Electrical}, \dQuote{Enclosed_Porch}, \dQuote{Exter_Cond}, \dQuote{Exter_Qual}, \dQuote{Exterior_1st}, \dQuote{Exterior_2nd}, \dQuote{Fence}, \dQuote{Fireplace_Qu}, \dQuote{Fireplaces}, \dQuote{First_Flr_SF}, \dQuote{Foundation}, \dQuote{Full_Bath}, \dQuote{Functional}, \dQuote{Garage_Area}, \dQuote{Garage_Cars}, \dQuote{Garage_Cond}, \dQuote{Garage_Finish}, \dQuote{Garage_Qual}, \dQuote{Garage_Type}, \dQuote{Gr_Liv_Area}, \dQuote{Half_Bath}, \dQuote{Heating}, \dQuote{Heating_QC}, \dQuote{House_Style}, \dQuote{Kitchen_AbvGr}, \dQuote{Kitchen_Qual}, \dQuote{Land_Contour}, \dQuote{Land_Slope}, \dQuote{Latitude}, \dQuote{Longitude}, \dQuote{Lot_Area}, \dQuote{Lot_Config}, \dQuote{Lot_Frontage}, \dQuote{Lot_Shape}, \dQuote{Low_Qual_Fin_SF}, \dQuote{MS_SubClass}, \dQuote{MS_Zoning}, \dQuote{Mas_Vnr_Area}, \dQuote{Mas_Vnr_Type}, \dQuote{Misc_Feature}, \dQuote{Misc_Val}, \dQuote{Mo_Sold}, \dQuote{Neighborhood}, \dQuote{Open_Porch_SF}, \dQuote{Overall_Cond}, \dQuote{Overall_Qual}, \dQuote{Paved_Drive}, \dQuote{Pool_Area}, \dQuote{Pool_QC}, \dQuote{Roof_Matl}, \dQuote{Roof_Style}, \dQuote{Sale_Condition}, \dQuote{Sale_Type}, \dQuote{Screen_Porch}, \dQuote{Second_Flr_SF}, \dQuote{Street}, \dQuote{Three_season_porch}, \dQuote{TotRms_AbvGrd}, \dQuote{Total_Bsmt_SF}, \dQuote{Utilities}, \dQuote{Wood_Deck_SF}, \dQuote{Year_Built}, \dQuote{Year_Remod_Add}, \dQuote{Year_Sold}
+}
+}
+
+\seealso{
+\itemize{
+\item Chapter in the \href{https://mlr3book.mlr-org.com/}{mlr3book}:
+\url{https://mlr3book.mlr-org.com/chapters/chapter2/data_and_basic_modeling.html}
+\item Package \CRANpkg{mlr3data} for more toy tasks.
+\item Package \CRANpkg{mlr3oml} for downloading tasks from \url{https://www.openml.org}.
+\item Package \CRANpkg{mlr3viz} for some generic visualizations.
+\item \link[mlr3misc:Dictionary]{Dictionary} of \link[=Task]{Tasks}: \link{mlr_tasks}
+\item \code{as.data.table(mlr_tasks)} for a table of available \link[=Task]{Tasks} in the running session (depending on the loaded packages).
+\item \CRANpkg{mlr3fselect} and \CRANpkg{mlr3filters} for feature selection and feature filtering.
+\item Extension packages for additional task types:
+\itemize{
+\item Unsupervised clustering: \CRANpkg{mlr3cluster}
+\item Probabilistic supervised regression and survival analysis: \url{https://mlr3proba.mlr-org.com/}.
+}
+}
+
+Other Task: 
+\code{\link{Task}},
+\code{\link{TaskClassif}},
+\code{\link{TaskRegr}},
+\code{\link{TaskSupervised}},
+\code{\link{TaskUnsupervised}},
+\code{\link{mlr_tasks}},
+\code{\link{mlr_tasks_breast_cancer}},
+\code{\link{mlr_tasks_german_credit}},
+\code{\link{mlr_tasks_iris}},
+\code{\link{mlr_tasks_mtcars}},
+\code{\link{mlr_tasks_penguins}},
+\code{\link{mlr_tasks_pima}},
+\code{\link{mlr_tasks_sonar}},
+\code{\link{mlr_tasks_spam}},
+\code{\link{mlr_tasks_wine}},
+\code{\link{mlr_tasks_zoo}}
+}
+\concept{Task}
diff --git a/man/mlr_tasks.Rd b/man/mlr_tasks.Rd
index b0a203136..a6fdd74fc 100644
--- a/man/mlr_tasks.Rd
+++ b/man/mlr_tasks.Rd
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ Other Task:
 \code{\link{TaskRegr}},
 \code{\link{TaskSupervised}},
 \code{\link{TaskUnsupervised}},
-\code{\link{mlr_tasks_boston_housing}},
+\code{\link{ames_housing}},
 \code{\link{mlr_tasks_breast_cancer}},
 \code{\link{mlr_tasks_german_credit}},
 \code{\link{mlr_tasks_iris}},
diff --git a/man/mlr_tasks_boston_housing.Rd b/man/mlr_tasks_boston_housing.Rd
deleted file mode 100644
index bd1884624..000000000
--- a/man/mlr_tasks_boston_housing.Rd
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,69 +0,0 @@
-% Generated by roxygen2: do not edit by hand
-% Please edit documentation in R/TaskRegr_boston_housing.R
-\name{mlr_tasks_boston_housing}
-\alias{mlr_tasks_boston_housing}
-\title{Boston Housing Regression Task}
-\format{
-\link[R6:R6Class]{R6::R6Class} inheriting from \link{TaskRegr}.
-}
-\description{
-A regression task for the \link[mlbench:BostonHousing]{mlbench::BostonHousing2} data set.
-This is the corrected data using the corrected median value (\code{cmedv}) as target.
-The uncorrected target (\code{medv}) is removed from the data.
-}
-\section{Construction}{
-
-
-\if{html}{\out{<div class="sourceCode">}}\preformatted{mlr_tasks$get("boston_housing")
-tsk("boston_housing")
-}\if{html}{\out{</div>}}
-}
-
-\section{Meta Information}{
-
-\itemize{
-\item Task type: \dQuote{regr}
-\item Dimensions: 506x18
-\item Properties: -
-\item Has Missings: \code{FALSE}
-\item Target: \dQuote{cmedv}
-\item Features: \dQuote{age}, \dQuote{b}, \dQuote{chas}, \dQuote{crim}, \dQuote{dis}, \dQuote{indus}, \dQuote{lat}, \dQuote{lon}, \dQuote{lstat}, \dQuote{nox}, \dQuote{ptratio}, \dQuote{rad}, \dQuote{rm}, \dQuote{tax}, \dQuote{town}, \dQuote{tract}, \dQuote{zn}
-}
-}
-
-\seealso{
-\itemize{
-\item Chapter in the \href{https://mlr3book.mlr-org.com/}{mlr3book}:
-\url{https://mlr3book.mlr-org.com/chapters/chapter2/data_and_basic_modeling.html}
-\item Package \CRANpkg{mlr3data} for more toy tasks.
-\item Package \CRANpkg{mlr3oml} for downloading tasks from \url{https://www.openml.org}.
-\item Package \CRANpkg{mlr3viz} for some generic visualizations.
-\item \link[mlr3misc:Dictionary]{Dictionary} of \link[=Task]{Tasks}: \link{mlr_tasks}
-\item \code{as.data.table(mlr_tasks)} for a table of available \link[=Task]{Tasks} in the running session (depending on the loaded packages).
-\item \CRANpkg{mlr3fselect} and \CRANpkg{mlr3filters} for feature selection and feature filtering.
-\item Extension packages for additional task types:
-\itemize{
-\item Unsupervised clustering: \CRANpkg{mlr3cluster}
-\item Probabilistic supervised regression and survival analysis: \url{https://mlr3proba.mlr-org.com/}.
-}
-}
-
-Other Task: 
-\code{\link{Task}},
-\code{\link{TaskClassif}},
-\code{\link{TaskRegr}},
-\code{\link{TaskSupervised}},
-\code{\link{TaskUnsupervised}},
-\code{\link{mlr_tasks}},
-\code{\link{mlr_tasks_breast_cancer}},
-\code{\link{mlr_tasks_german_credit}},
-\code{\link{mlr_tasks_iris}},
-\code{\link{mlr_tasks_mtcars}},
-\code{\link{mlr_tasks_penguins}},
-\code{\link{mlr_tasks_pima}},
-\code{\link{mlr_tasks_sonar}},
-\code{\link{mlr_tasks_spam}},
-\code{\link{mlr_tasks_wine}},
-\code{\link{mlr_tasks_zoo}}
-}
-\concept{Task}
diff --git a/man/mlr_tasks_breast_cancer.Rd b/man/mlr_tasks_breast_cancer.Rd
index 40315a0ce..881fe404a 100644
--- a/man/mlr_tasks_breast_cancer.Rd
+++ b/man/mlr_tasks_breast_cancer.Rd
@@ -60,8 +60,8 @@ Other Task:
 \code{\link{TaskRegr}},
 \code{\link{TaskSupervised}},
 \code{\link{TaskUnsupervised}},
+\code{\link{ames_housing}},
 \code{\link{mlr_tasks}},
-\code{\link{mlr_tasks_boston_housing}},
 \code{\link{mlr_tasks_german_credit}},
 \code{\link{mlr_tasks_iris}},
 \code{\link{mlr_tasks_mtcars}},
diff --git a/man/mlr_tasks_german_credit.Rd b/man/mlr_tasks_german_credit.Rd
index 0187302e0..345e7d24d 100644
--- a/man/mlr_tasks_german_credit.Rd
+++ b/man/mlr_tasks_german_credit.Rd
@@ -83,8 +83,8 @@ Other Task:
 \code{\link{TaskRegr}},
 \code{\link{TaskSupervised}},
 \code{\link{TaskUnsupervised}},
+\code{\link{ames_housing}},
 \code{\link{mlr_tasks}},
-\code{\link{mlr_tasks_boston_housing}},
 \code{\link{mlr_tasks_breast_cancer}},
 \code{\link{mlr_tasks_iris}},
 \code{\link{mlr_tasks_mtcars}},
diff --git a/man/mlr_tasks_iris.Rd b/man/mlr_tasks_iris.Rd
index 324a8afa1..eb5bb4df8 100644
--- a/man/mlr_tasks_iris.Rd
+++ b/man/mlr_tasks_iris.Rd
@@ -61,8 +61,8 @@ Other Task:
 \code{\link{TaskRegr}},
 \code{\link{TaskSupervised}},
 \code{\link{TaskUnsupervised}},
+\code{\link{ames_housing}},
 \code{\link{mlr_tasks}},
-\code{\link{mlr_tasks_boston_housing}},
 \code{\link{mlr_tasks_breast_cancer}},
 \code{\link{mlr_tasks_german_credit}},
 \code{\link{mlr_tasks_mtcars}},
diff --git a/man/mlr_tasks_mtcars.Rd b/man/mlr_tasks_mtcars.Rd
index a20ada95e..c2c488b24 100644
--- a/man/mlr_tasks_mtcars.Rd
+++ b/man/mlr_tasks_mtcars.Rd
@@ -54,8 +54,8 @@ Other Task:
 \code{\link{TaskRegr}},
 \code{\link{TaskSupervised}},
 \code{\link{TaskUnsupervised}},
+\code{\link{ames_housing}},
 \code{\link{mlr_tasks}},
-\code{\link{mlr_tasks_boston_housing}},
 \code{\link{mlr_tasks_breast_cancer}},
 \code{\link{mlr_tasks_german_credit}},
 \code{\link{mlr_tasks_iris}},
diff --git a/man/mlr_tasks_penguins.Rd b/man/mlr_tasks_penguins.Rd
index 8a35b4228..619ae0f9c 100644
--- a/man/mlr_tasks_penguins.Rd
+++ b/man/mlr_tasks_penguins.Rd
@@ -73,8 +73,8 @@ Other Task:
 \code{\link{TaskRegr}},
 \code{\link{TaskSupervised}},
 \code{\link{TaskUnsupervised}},
+\code{\link{ames_housing}},
 \code{\link{mlr_tasks}},
-\code{\link{mlr_tasks_boston_housing}},
 \code{\link{mlr_tasks_breast_cancer}},
 \code{\link{mlr_tasks_german_credit}},
 \code{\link{mlr_tasks_iris}},
diff --git a/man/mlr_tasks_pima.Rd b/man/mlr_tasks_pima.Rd
index c09365db6..bec66c6ae 100644
--- a/man/mlr_tasks_pima.Rd
+++ b/man/mlr_tasks_pima.Rd
@@ -54,8 +54,8 @@ Other Task:
 \code{\link{TaskRegr}},
 \code{\link{TaskSupervised}},
 \code{\link{TaskUnsupervised}},
+\code{\link{ames_housing}},
 \code{\link{mlr_tasks}},
-\code{\link{mlr_tasks_boston_housing}},
 \code{\link{mlr_tasks_breast_cancer}},
 \code{\link{mlr_tasks_german_credit}},
 \code{\link{mlr_tasks_iris}},
diff --git a/man/mlr_tasks_sonar.Rd b/man/mlr_tasks_sonar.Rd
index 0d3119e0e..18b2cf488 100644
--- a/man/mlr_tasks_sonar.Rd
+++ b/man/mlr_tasks_sonar.Rd
@@ -54,8 +54,8 @@ Other Task:
 \code{\link{TaskRegr}},
 \code{\link{TaskSupervised}},
 \code{\link{TaskUnsupervised}},
+\code{\link{ames_housing}},
 \code{\link{mlr_tasks}},
-\code{\link{mlr_tasks_boston_housing}},
 \code{\link{mlr_tasks_breast_cancer}},
 \code{\link{mlr_tasks_german_credit}},
 \code{\link{mlr_tasks_iris}},
diff --git a/man/mlr_tasks_spam.Rd b/man/mlr_tasks_spam.Rd
index 7ac015fc3..f8d5d143c 100644
--- a/man/mlr_tasks_spam.Rd
+++ b/man/mlr_tasks_spam.Rd
@@ -72,8 +72,8 @@ Other Task:
 \code{\link{TaskRegr}},
 \code{\link{TaskSupervised}},
 \code{\link{TaskUnsupervised}},
+\code{\link{ames_housing}},
 \code{\link{mlr_tasks}},
-\code{\link{mlr_tasks_boston_housing}},
 \code{\link{mlr_tasks_breast_cancer}},
 \code{\link{mlr_tasks_german_credit}},
 \code{\link{mlr_tasks_iris}},
diff --git a/man/mlr_tasks_wine.Rd b/man/mlr_tasks_wine.Rd
index 1df0f59a3..8f07ade33 100644
--- a/man/mlr_tasks_wine.Rd
+++ b/man/mlr_tasks_wine.Rd
@@ -67,8 +67,8 @@ Other Task:
 \code{\link{TaskRegr}},
 \code{\link{TaskSupervised}},
 \code{\link{TaskUnsupervised}},
+\code{\link{ames_housing}},
 \code{\link{mlr_tasks}},
-\code{\link{mlr_tasks_boston_housing}},
 \code{\link{mlr_tasks_breast_cancer}},
 \code{\link{mlr_tasks_german_credit}},
 \code{\link{mlr_tasks_iris}},
diff --git a/man/mlr_tasks_zoo.Rd b/man/mlr_tasks_zoo.Rd
index 6babf04be..115df635c 100644
--- a/man/mlr_tasks_zoo.Rd
+++ b/man/mlr_tasks_zoo.Rd
@@ -54,8 +54,8 @@ Other Task:
 \code{\link{TaskRegr}},
 \code{\link{TaskSupervised}},
 \code{\link{TaskUnsupervised}},
+\code{\link{ames_housing}},
 \code{\link{mlr_tasks}},
-\code{\link{mlr_tasks_boston_housing}},
 \code{\link{mlr_tasks_breast_cancer}},
 \code{\link{mlr_tasks_german_credit}},
 \code{\link{mlr_tasks_iris}},
diff --git a/man/partition.Rd b/man/partition.Rd
index da8cc415d..935c79855 100644
--- a/man/partition.Rd
+++ b/man/partition.Rd
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ Creates a split of the row ids of a \link{Task} into a training and a test set,
 }
 \examples{
 # regression task partitioned into training and test set
-task = tsk("boston_housing")
+task = tsk("ames_housing")
 split = partition(task, ratio = 0.5)
 data = data.frame(
   y = c(task$truth(split$train), task$truth(split$test)),
diff --git a/tests/testthat/test_Learner.R b/tests/testthat/test_Learner.R
index 76611bf25..0c3c0e414 100644
--- a/tests/testthat/test_Learner.R
+++ b/tests/testthat/test_Learner.R
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ test_that("clone", {
 })
 
 test_that("Learners are called with invoke / small footprint of call", {
-  task = tsk("boston_housing")
+  task = tsk("ames_housing")
   learner = lrn("regr.rpart")
   learner$train(task)
   call = as.character(learner$model$call)
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ test_that("Learners are called with invoke / small footprint of call", {
 })
 
 test_that("Extra data slots of learners are kept / reset", {
-  task = tsk("boston_housing")
+  task = tsk("ames_housing")
   learner = lrn("regr.rpart")
   learner$train(task)
   learner$state$foo = "bar"
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ test_that("train task is properly cloned (#383)", {
 })
 
 test_that("predict on newdata works / regr", {
-  task = tsk("boston_housing")
+  task = tsk("ames_housing")
   train = which(seq_len(task$nrow) %% 2 == 0L)
   test = setdiff(seq_len(task$nrow), train)
 
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ test_that("predict on newdata works / regr", {
 
 
 test_that("predict on newdata works / no target column", {
-  task = tsk("boston_housing")
+  task = tsk("ames_housing")
   train = which(seq_len(task$nrow) %% 2 == 0L)
   test = setdiff(seq_len(task$nrow), train)
 
@@ -246,7 +246,7 @@ test_that("fallback learner is deep cloned (#511)", {
 })
 
 test_that("learner cannot be trained with TuneToken present", {
-  task = tsk("boston_housing")
+  task = tsk("ames_housing")
   learner = lrn("regr.rpart", cp = paradox::to_tune(0.1, 0.3))
   expect_error(learner$train(task),
     regexp = "<LearnerRegrRpart:regr.rpart> cannot be trained with TuneToken present in hyperparameter: cp",
@@ -307,17 +307,17 @@ test_that("Error on missing data (#413)", {
 })
 
 test_that("Task prototype is stored in state", {
-  task = tsk("boston_housing")
+  task = tsk("ames_housing")
   learner = lrn("regr.rpart")
   learner$train(task)
 
   prototype = learner$state$data_prototype
-  expect_data_table(prototype, nrows = 0, ncols = 18)
+  expect_data_table(prototype, nrows = 0, ncols = 82)
   expect_names(names(prototype), permutation.of = c(task$feature_names, task$target_names))
 })
 
 test_that("Models can be replaced", {
-  task = tsk("boston_housing")
+  task = tsk("ames_housing")
   learner = lrn("regr.featureless")
   learner$train(task)
 
diff --git a/tests/testthat/test_MeasureRegr.R b/tests/testthat/test_MeasureRegr.R
index 0e9dcf760..a43509986 100644
--- a/tests/testthat/test_MeasureRegr.R
+++ b/tests/testthat/test_MeasureRegr.R
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 test_that("Regression measures", {
   keys = mlr_measures$keys("^regr\\.")
-  task = tsk("boston_housing")
+  task = tsk("ames_housing")
   learner = lrn("regr.rpart")
   learner$train(task)
   p = learner$predict(task)
diff --git a/tests/testthat/test_PredictionRegr.R b/tests/testthat/test_PredictionRegr.R
index fe615a188..fa6911395 100644
--- a/tests/testthat/test_PredictionRegr.R
+++ b/tests/testthat/test_PredictionRegr.R
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 test_that("Construction", {
-  task = tsk("boston_housing")
+  task = tsk("ames_housing")
   p = PredictionRegr$new(row_ids = task$row_ids, truth = task$truth(), response = task$truth())
   expect_prediction(p)
   expect_prediction_regr(p)
 })
 
 test_that("Internally constructed Prediction", {
-  task = tsk("boston_housing")
+  task = tsk("ames_housing")
   lrn = lrn("regr.featureless")
   lrn$predict_type = "se"
   p = lrn$train(task)$predict(task)
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ test_that("Internally constructed Prediction", {
 
 
 test_that("c", {
-  task = tsk("boston_housing")
+  task = tsk("ames_housing")
   lrn = lrn("regr.featureless")
   lrn$predict_type = "se"
   rr = resample(task, lrn, rsmp("cv", folds = 3))
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ test_that("c", {
 })
 
 test_that("c drops se (#250)", {
-  task = tsk("boston_housing")
+  task = tsk("ames_housing")
   lrn = lrn("regr.featureless")
   rr = resample(task, lrn, rsmp("cv", folds = 3))
 
diff --git a/tests/testthat/test_Resampling.R b/tests/testthat/test_Resampling.R
index bce5a6cc5..6631f7a06 100644
--- a/tests/testthat/test_Resampling.R
+++ b/tests/testthat/test_Resampling.R
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 test_that("re-instantiating", {
   t1 = tsk("iris")
-  t2 = tsk("boston_housing")
+  t2 = tsk("ames_housing")
   r = rsmp("cv", folds = 2)
 
   expect_resampling(r$instantiate(t1), task = t1)
diff --git a/tests/testthat/test_Task.R b/tests/testthat/test_Task.R
index eb74f95de..acd83724b 100644
--- a/tests/testthat/test_Task.R
+++ b/tests/testthat/test_Task.R
@@ -1,15 +1,15 @@
 test_that("Feature columns can be reordered", {
-  bh = load_dataset("BostonHousing", "mlbench")
-  bh$medv = NULL
+  ah = readRDS(system.file("extdata", "ames_housing.rds", package = "mlr3"))
+  ah$Sale_Price = NULL
 
-  task = tsk("boston_housing")
-  task$col_roles$feature = setdiff(names(bh), "cmedv")
+  task = tsk("ames_housing")
+  task$col_roles$feature = setdiff(names(ah), "Sale_Price")
 
-  expect_equal(task$feature_names, setdiff(names(bh), "cmedv"))
-  expect_equal(names(task$data(rows = 1)), c("cmedv", setdiff(names(bh), "cmedv")))
+  expect_equal(task$feature_names, setdiff(names(ah), "Sale_Price"))
+  expect_equal(names(task$data(rows = 1)), c("Sale_Price", setdiff(names(ah), "Sale_Price")))
 
   task$col_roles$feature = shuffle(task$col_roles$feature)
-  expect_equal(names(task$data(rows = 1)), c("cmedv", task$col_roles$feature))
+  expect_equal(names(task$data(rows = 1)), c("Sale_Price", task$col_roles$feature))
 })
 
 test_that("Task duplicates rows", {
diff --git a/tests/testthat/test_TaskRegr.R b/tests/testthat/test_TaskRegr.R
index a71efb7de..137970a09 100644
--- a/tests/testthat/test_TaskRegr.R
+++ b/tests/testthat/test_TaskRegr.R
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 test_that("Basic ops on BostonHousing task", {
-  task = tsk("boston_housing")
+  task = tsk("ames_housing")
   expect_task(task)
   expect_task_supervised(task)
   expect_task_regr(task)
diff --git a/tests/testthat/test_benchmark.R b/tests/testthat/test_benchmark.R
index d4f712e89..1812331bb 100644
--- a/tests/testthat/test_benchmark.R
+++ b/tests/testthat/test_benchmark.R
@@ -161,7 +161,7 @@ test_that("predict_type is checked", {
 })
 
 test_that("custom resampling (#245)", {
-  task_boston = tsk("boston_housing")
+  task_boston = tsk("ames_housing")
   lrn = lrn("regr.featureless")
 
   rdesc = rsmp("custom")
@@ -329,7 +329,7 @@ test_that("disable cloning", {
 
 test_that("task and learner assertions", {
   grid = benchmark_grid(
-    tasks = tsks(c("iris", "boston_housing")),
+    tasks = tsks(c("iris", "ames_housing")),
     learners = lrn("classif.rpart"),
     resamplings = rsmp("holdout")
   )
diff --git a/tests/testthat/test_convert_task.R b/tests/testthat/test_convert_task.R
index 411010b75..37e2fe876 100644
--- a/tests/testthat/test_convert_task.R
+++ b/tests/testthat/test_convert_task.R
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 test_that("convert_task - Regr -> Regr", {
-  task = mlr_tasks$get("boston_housing")
-  result = convert_task(task, target = "age", drop_original_target = TRUE)
+  task = tsk("ames_housing")
+  result = convert_task(task, target = "Mas_Vnr_Area", drop_original_target = TRUE)
 
   expect_class(result, "TaskRegr")
   expect_task(result)
-  expect_true(result$col_roles$target == "age")
-  expect_true(all(result$feature_names != "age"))
-  expect_true(all(result$feature_names != "cmedv"))
+  expect_true(result$col_roles$target == "Mas_Vnr_Area")
+  expect_true(all(result$feature_names != "Mas_Vnr_Area"))
+  expect_true(all(result$feature_names != "Sale_Price"))
   expect_true(all(unlist(imap(result$row_roles,
     .f = function(z, x) {
       all(result$row_roles[[x]] == task$row_roles[[x]])
@@ -19,14 +19,14 @@ test_that("convert_task - Regr -> Regr", {
 })
 
 test_that("convert_task - Regr -> Classif", {
-  task = mlr_tasks$get("boston_housing")
-  result = convert_task(task, target = "chas", new_type = "classif", drop_original_target = TRUE)
+  task = tsk("ames_housing")
+  result = convert_task(task, target = "Alley", new_type = "classif", drop_original_target = TRUE)
 
   expect_class(result, "TaskClassif")
   expect_task(result)
-  expect_true(result$col_roles$target == "chas")
-  expect_true(all(result$feature_names != "chas"))
-  expect_true(all(result$feature_names != "cmedv"))
+  expect_true(result$col_roles$target == "Alley")
+  expect_true(all(result$feature_names != "Alley"))
+  expect_true(all(result$feature_names != "Sale_Price"))
   expect_true(all(unlist(imap(result$row_roles,
     .f = function(z, x) {
       all(result$row_roles[[x]] == task$row_roles[[x]])
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ test_that("convert_task - Regr -> Classif", {
 })
 
 test_that("convert_task - Classif -> Regr", {
-  task = mlr_tasks$get("iris")
+  task = tsk("iris")
   result = convert_task(task, target = "Sepal.Width", new_type = "regr", drop_original_target = TRUE)
 
   expect_class(result, "TaskRegr")
@@ -59,18 +59,18 @@ test_that("convert_task - Classif -> Regr", {
 })
 
 test_that("convert_task - same target", {
-  task = tsk("boston_housing")
-  task$col_roles$feature = setdiff(task$col_roles$feature, "lat")
+  task = tsk("ames_housing")
+  task$col_roles$feature = setdiff(task$col_roles$feature, "Latitue")
 
   results = list(
-    convert_task(task, target = "cmedv", new_type = "regr", drop_original_target = TRUE),
-    convert_task(task, target = "cmedv", new_type = "regr", drop_original_target = FALSE)
+    convert_task(task, target = "Sale_Price", new_type = "regr", drop_original_target = TRUE),
+    convert_task(task, target = "Sale_Price", new_type = "regr", drop_original_target = FALSE)
   )
 
   for (result in results) {
     expect_class(result, "TaskRegr")
     expect_task(result)
-    expect_true(result$col_roles$target == "cmedv")
+    expect_true(result$col_roles$target == "Sale_Price")
     expect_true(all(unlist(imap(result$row_roles,
       .f = function(z, x) {
         all(result$row_roles[[x]] == task$row_roles[[x]])
@@ -88,19 +88,19 @@ test_that("convert_task - same target", {
 })
 
 test_that("convert task - general checks", {
-  btask = mlr_tasks$get("boston_housing")
-  itask = mlr_tasks$get("iris")
+  btask = tsk("ames_housing")
+  itask = tsk("iris")
 
   # target does not exist
-  expect_error(convert_task(btask, target = "cmedv2"))
+  expect_error(convert_task(btask, target = "Sale_Price2"))
 
   # target class does not match
-  expect_error(convert_task(btask, target = "cmedv", new_type = "classif"))
-  expect_error(convert_task(itask, target = "Sepal.Length", new_type = "classif"))
+  expect_error(convert_task(btask, target = "Sale_Price", new_type = "classif"))
+  expect_error(convert_task(itask, target = "Total_Bsmt_SF", new_type = "classif"))
 })
 
 test_that("convert_task reconstructs task", {
-  task = mlr_tasks$get("iris")
+  task = tsk("iris")
   tsk = convert_task(task)
   tsk$man = "mlr3::mlr_tasks_iris"
   suppressWarnings(expect_equal(task, tsk, ignore_attr = TRUE))
diff --git a/tests/testthat/test_mlr_reflections.R b/tests/testthat/test_mlr_reflections.R
index caec52f92..693b0640e 100644
--- a/tests/testthat/test_mlr_reflections.R
+++ b/tests/testthat/test_mlr_reflections.R
@@ -35,19 +35,19 @@ measure = msr("classif.ce")
 
 test_that("assertions work", {
   expect_learner(assert_learner(learner, task))
-  expect_error(assert_learner(learner, tsk("boston_housing")), "must have task type")
+  expect_error(assert_learner(learner, tsk("ames_housing")), "must have task type")
   expect_null(assert_task_learner(task, learner))
-  expect_error(assert_task_learner(tsk("boston_housing"), learner), "not match type")
+  expect_error(assert_task_learner(tsk("ames_housing"), learner), "not match type")
   expect_measure(assert_measure(measure, task, learner))
-  expect_error(assert_measure(measure, tsk("boston_housing"), learner), "is not compatible")
+  expect_error(assert_measure(measure, tsk("ames_housing"), learner), "is not compatible")
   expect_error(assert_measure(measure, task, lrn("regr.rpart")), "is not compatible")
 
   at = learner
   class(at) = c("AutoTuner", "Learner", "R6")
   expect_learner(assert_learner(at, task))
-  expect_error(assert_learner(at, tsk("boston_housing")), "must have task type")
+  expect_error(assert_learner(at, tsk("ames_housing")), "must have task type")
   expect_null(assert_task_learner(task, at))
-  expect_error(assert_task_learner(tsk("boston_housing"), at))
+  expect_error(assert_task_learner(tsk("ames_housing"), at))
 })
 
 test_that("train and predict works", {
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ test_that("benchmark works", {
   expect_data_table(tab, nrows = 1L)
   expect_names(names(tab), type = "unique", identical.to = c("nr", "resample_result", "task_id", "learner_id", "resampling_id", "iters", "classif.ce"))
 
-  grid = benchmark_grid(list(task, tsk("mtcars"), tsk("boston_housing")), learner, rsmp("cv", folds = 3))
+  grid = benchmark_grid(list(task, tsk("mtcars"), tsk("ames_housing")), learner, rsmp("cv", folds = 3))
   expect_error(benchmark(grid), "Multiple task types detected")
 })
 
diff --git a/tests/testthat/test_predict.R b/tests/testthat/test_predict.R
index 1594811c1..5ee97ae4d 100644
--- a/tests/testthat/test_predict.R
+++ b/tests/testthat/test_predict.R
@@ -50,8 +50,8 @@ test_that("missing predictions are handled gracefully / regr", {
 
 
 test_that("predict_newdata with weights (#519)", {
-  task = tsk("boston_housing")
-  task$set_col_roles("nox", "weight")
+  task = tsk("ames_housing")
+  task$set_col_roles("Bsmt_Half_Bath", "weight")
   learner = lrn("regr.featureless")
   learner$train(task)
   expect_prediction(learner$predict(task))
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ test_that("predict_newdata with weights (#519)", {
   expect_prediction(learner$predict_newdata(task$data()))
 
   # w weights
-  expect_prediction(learner$predict_newdata(task$data(cols = c(task$target_names, task$feature_names, "nox"))))
+  expect_prediction(learner$predict_newdata(task$data(cols = c(task$target_names, task$feature_names, "Bsmt_Half_Bath"))))
 })
 
 test_that("parallel predict works", {
@@ -78,3 +78,6 @@ test_that("parallel predict works", {
 
   expect_equal(as.data.table(p1), as.data.table(p2))
 })
+
+
+