Working Group

City Vouchers and Affordable Housing Trust

We developed a citizen’s zoning petition to allow the Affordable Housing Trust to fund municipal housing vouchers and facilities for the unhoused as well as requiring the Trust Board to include significant representation from impacted groups. Our petition team presented at hearings on that petition at the Planning Board and Ordinance Committee. Although the Petition was not adopted, we have played an important role in changing the conversation from whether there should be municipal vouchers to how and when they will happen, as well as improving representation on the Trust board and other reforms. Our Affordable Housing Trust Team is moving on to advocate for the voucher programs we think would be best.