Related documents:
- Press Release (9/1/21): Community Coalition Seeks Answers to Fair Housing Questionnaire
From Mayoral Candidates - Candidates’ Responses to Questionnaire
- City of Boston Assessment of Fair Housing – Final Draft, February 22, 2021. Submitted to City Council President Kim Janey on February 24, 2021, in anticipation of her ascension to Acting Mayor and formally to the City Council on March 15, 2021.
- City Council Resolution, April 7, 2021. Recognizing the Assessment and supporting “its adoption and implementation of the stated policies and goals.”
- Executive Summary of the Assessment of Fair Housing
- Goals of the City of Boston to Affirmatively Further Fair Housing
- Assessment of Fair Housing
- Mayoral Ask
- Event Agenda
- Boston Globe Op Ed by Councilor Lydia Edwards and other members of the Boston City Council
- Evictions in Boston: The Disproportionate Effects of Forced Moves on Communities of Color – City Life/Vida Urbana
- Qualified Renters Need Not Apply: Race and Voucher Discrimination in the Metro Boston Rental Housing Market – The Boston Foundation & Suffolk University Law School
- Gentrification and Disinvestment 2020 – National Community Reinvestment Coalition
A virtual town hall meeting hosted by the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing Community Advisory Committee, a coalition of housing and equity organizations including the Houston Institute
In the throes of the coronavirus, the ongoing inequities that define our nation and our city have been brought into full light. We must consider all of the options we have for addressing the underlying issues that have led to this crisis. It is widely recognized that disparities in housing opportunity and the denial of equal housing rights have played a significant role. The City of Boston embarked on a federally mandated assessment of fair housing (AFH) process to address these inequities. The assessment was centered around a community-guided process that included twelve community meetings and a great deal of research and planning. Join this open town hall meeting for the advisory group’s report of that process and the goals that grew out of it.
Keynote Speaker: Stella Adams, National Fair Housing Activist; Owner, S J Adams Consulting
Special Guest: Hon. Lydia Edwards, Boston City Councilor, District 1