Coalition for a Truly Affordable Boston

Fighting for housing, racial and economic justice, through strengthening the Inclusionary Development Policy

[Coalition for a Truly Affordable Boston @AffordableBos]

Thank you so much, Councilors! We look forward to working with you over the next year.

[Reclaim Roxbury @ReclaimRoxbury]

🎉 Huge thanks to Councilors @LizBreadon , @Ruthzee, @juliaforboston, @ben4district6 , @VoteWorrell, @EnriquePepen, @Santana4Boston, @Gigi4District1 Fernandes-Anderson & Durkan, for supporting the @AffordableBos resolution to strengthen truly affordable housing in Boston!🏠✨

[Reclaim Roxbury @ReclaimRoxbury]

We’re excited for Tuesday! Thank you to @MayorWu for unlocking $$ to catalyze affordable housing development. 20% affordable at deeper AMI’s is something to celebrate! S/o to @AffordableBos work on IZ and all the councilors working on this @LizBreadon @VoteWorrell & more 🥳👏🏽!

[Better Budget Alliance Boston @BBA_Boston]

Tonight: important #Boston City Council hearing on #AffordableHousing (strengthening the Inclusionary Development Policy)!

And this Monday, City Council holds a hearing on how progressive #ParticipatoryBudgeting will be (sign up to testify: https://t.co/64Xmb1UagJ).

[Coalition for a Truly Affordable Boston @AffordableBos]

Join us at the IDP hearings on Sat 1/21 and Thurs 1/26! - https://t.co/grgrHWHNFY

[Coalition for a Truly Affordable Boston @AffordableBos]

Join us at the IDP hearings on Sat 1/21 and Thurs 1/26! - https://t.co/grgrHWHNFY

[Saraya (suh-RAY-uh) Wintersmith @SWINTERSMITH]

Oh, boy.

Boston City Council just unanimously passed a resolution calling for immediate revisions to the Inclusionary Development Policy.

The council wants to lower the IDP trigger threshold down from 9 units to 5 annnnnnd...

[Reclaim Roxbury @ReclaimRoxbury]

Roxbury residents- Join us this Saturday 12-4 on King St for food and networking about the movement for affordable housing, public land for public good, and development without displacement! LINK TO REGISTER: https://t.co/eBN7ovz3ws #reclaimroxbury #bospoli

[Armani White @Ziggy617]

Come through Saturday and hear about how we secured affordable housing for 60% of the coming local development in Dudley Sq and ways to continue the movement ! #bospoli #reclaimroxbury

[honora perkins @honora_perkins]

My son can’t find affordable housing in Boston. He’s essentially couch surfing. This is so bad. Jobs don’t pay affordable wages, rents are too high. Need help. #bostonaffordablehousing

[stephanie leydon @stephanieleydon]

Frances Amador and her husband Franklin have a lifetime of memories in East Boston. They met at #EastBostonHigh and live in the same apartment where Frances has lived she was 13.
Yesterday their lease expired.

[Laurie Radwin @LaurieRadwin]

@RicardoNArroyo @Ruthzee @MayorWu @mahahome @GBinterfaith @wutrain @KenzieBok I’m so energized by my MAHA housing activist colleagues. Onward to truly affordable Boston rents! Hearing testimony activists say 30-40% AMI metric is about right. @AffordableBos @CllrKendraLara @Ruthzee @KenzieBok

[Marly Frederique @MarlyFrederique]

Who are developers building these luxury units for???? CLEARLY NOT EVERY DAY BOSTON RESIDENTS #MEETtheNEED

[Coalition for a Truly Affordable Boston @AffordableBos]

HOUSING JUSTICE IS RACIAL JUSTICE!

CTAB’s IDP Standards for affordable housing would address the racial & economic housing disparities & inequities among Boston residents

Margaret Turner of @BostonLegalAid
#IDPHearing
#AffirmativelyFurtheringFairHousing
#MEETtheNEED

[Marly Frederique @MarlyFrederique]

Woohoo I heard a fellow Dragon @BostonLatinAcad Testified in support of CTAB IDP standards!
#IDPHEARING #MEETtheNEED #thekidsareallright
#futureofboston

[Coalition for a Truly Affordable Boston @AffordableBos]

We love to see it! Young people from Youth Justice & Power Union invested in Boston’s future by fighting for affordable housing and keeping Boston for Bostonians #IDPHearing #MEETtheNEED

[Coalition for a Truly Affordable Boston @AffordableBos]

MA RANKS 50th in Senior Economic Security. Seniors especially those on a fixed income are in danger of being displaced or homeless! Adopting CTAB IDP Standards would address the affordable housing need of those most vulnerable and valuable to our community. #IDPHearing

[Coalition for a Truly Affordable Boston @AffordableBos]

FENWAY Resident Connor supports CTAB IDP STANDARDS due to his experience watching displacement in his community and the labor shortages in local small businesses, healthcare institutions, and schools as a result of increasingly high housing costs

[Coalition for a Truly Affordable Boston @AffordableBos]

RAISING IDP SET ASIDE TO 20% is not enough. TWO DECADES AGO a study showed the 25% met the need of the community 33% meets the need of the community today!

[Coalition for a Truly Affordable Boston @AffordableBos]

Pastor KeKe representing Haitian Americans United, Equity Now & Beyond, Incorporated Brazilian Women Group, supports stronger IDP improvements:
Increase IDP to 33%
More family sized units
Lower IDP threshold
Lower AMI to average of <40%
Make IDP units permanently affordable

[Coalition for a Truly Affordable Boston @AffordableBos]

RAISE #IDPto33% !!!

[Metro Housing|Boston @MetroHousingBos]

‘Just one paycheck away.’ Report finds 163,000 low-income Mass. families need affordable housing. https://t.co/Lymvo700pK via @BostonGlobe