- Housing is the Hub
- Housing is fundamental to family success, community stability, health outcomes, educational achievement, and economic growth.
- All of our other efforts aimed at addressing the needs of families and individuals are at risk when the basic need for affordable, quality housing is not fully met.
- We must target more housing resources to our lowest income families and individuals
- Data demonstrates a shortage of affordable housing of more than 90,000 units state-wide for extremely low-income households
- We are facing insurmountable waiting lists, extraordinarily low turn-over rates, “doubling up” and the like.
- We must target more resources to address this growing shortfall.
- We must preserve the housing and affordability in our current stock
- Publicly-assisted housing is a tremendous existing resource in meeting housing need.
- Yet only 31 of our 169 cities and towns have more than 10% of their stock affordable
- Our state-sponsored portfolio that once numbered over 17,000 now includes just 14,000 units.
- We must ensure that, as we are revitalizing this stock, units and affordability are preserved.
- Everyone has a role to play
- No one sector can shape the future of housing.
- Change requires cross-sector coordination to identify barriers, shape solutions and come together to achieve goals.