GARE Public Resources

To create a new Assessment of Fair Housing, the City of Boston’s enlisted the Affirmatively Further Fair Housing (AFFH) Community Advisory Committee (CAC) which engaged in an extensive 16-month community outreach effort, involving public testimony, fourteen community meetings and a citywide survey generating 2500 residents responses. The resulting plan’s 14 fair housing goals and over 100 actions serves as the City’s overarching plan for addressing segregation, displacement and disinvestment in communities of color. 

Implementation of the plan has resulted in a number of changes to housing and land use policy, programs, and community engagement structures. Boston became the first city to incorporate fair housing benefits directly into its zoning code. Boston’s Anti-Displacement Action Plan is another effort to operationalize the City’s fair housing goals. City leaders continue to communicate the City’s priority to meet their federal obligation to affirmatively further fair housing through regular City Council resolutions and Executive Orders.