Mayor Menino Convenes Housing Boston 2020 Advisory Panel
Housing Boston 2020 initiative to create 30,000 new units of
housing in Boston
Mayor
Thomas M. Menino today announced the members of an advisory panel that will
help identify and address Boston ’s
new housing needs. The Housing
Boston 2020 Advisory Panel is
comprised of housing professionals who will work with key personnel from the
city’s housing agencies to
develop strategies to manage Boston ’s
current and future housing challenges. The group convened for their first
meeting yesterday.
Mayor
Menino announced Housing
Boston 2020, a ten-year initiative that calls for the production of 30,000
new units in his annual address to the Boston Municipal Research Bureau in March. The new
housing panel will be asked to create a comprehensive plan that will lay the
groundwork for the creation of these 30,000 new units by 2020.
“We know the strength
of Boston 's
neighborhoods relies on a diverse, strong housing market, so I have asked these
talented individuals to help us come up with a new plan to meet the challenges
and opportunities we face today and in the future,” Mayor Menino said. “Today,
I asked the panel to examine how we can best accommodate Boston’s growth and
shifting demographics; make sure we have appropriate and affordable housing
available for all of these demographics, and consider how best we can stabilize
the middle class through housing solutions.”
Mayor Menino has been
a leading advocate for housing since he took office in 1993. In 2000, he
charged his housing agencies to work with an advisory panel to develop a new
housing strategy for Boston ,
known as Leading
the Way. The
strategy addressed the city's housing needs in several areas:
· Production of new market-rate and affordable
housing;
· Raising + leveraging funding for affordable housing;
· Reducing homelessness;
· Reclaiming public housing stock;
· Increasing opportunities for homeownership;
· Preserving rental housing; and
The
Leading the Way housing strategy has created nearly 25,000 housing units in
Boston – 5,000 more units than had been built over the previous 30 years.
Leading the Way also injected more than $10 billion of investment into the
local economy. Based on the
success of the Leading the Way housing strategy, Mayor Menino has convenedthe
Housing Boston 2020 Advisory
Panel to develop a new strategy for this decade.
The members of the
Housing Boston
2020 Advisory Panel are:
· Thomas Callahan, Massachusetts
Affordable Housing Alliance
· Joe Kriesberg ,
Massachusetts Association of Community Development Corporations
· Gail Latimore, Codman
Square NDC
· Lisa B. Alberghini, Planning Office for Urban Affairs, Inc.
· Thomas R. Gleason, MassHousing
· Mark Erlich, New England Carpenters Union
· Edward G. Nardi, Cresset
· Michael Roberts, Avalon
Bay
· Tamara Roy, ADD Inc.
· Eric Belsky, Harvard University
Joint Center for Housing Studies
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