The City Council Housing Committee Co-Chairs are currently advancing a proposal to rezone all of Cambridge to end exclusionary zoning and to allow for-profit 6-story housing with 20% affordable units throughout the City.

CHJC's public comment on this initiative has led to a greater focus on assuring that any zoning changes will benefit and won’t harm no- and low-income community members. City staff are supposed to draft and introduce zoning to the City Council in early September. The Planning Board and Council will then hold hearings on the zoning. Our Multi-Family Zoning Working Group is developing amendments and advocacy to protect and benefit no- and low-income community members and to achieve other important objectives.