Boston City Council, MA / Housing & Community Development

Public Safety & Criminal Justice and Housing & Community Development Committees Hearing- Docket #1141-A hearing to discuss public safety and quality of life issues for our residents in Public Housing.

Housing & Community Development Hearing-Dockets
#0607 - Message and order authorizing the City of Boston to accept and expend ($17,535,525.00) in the form of a grant to fund housing, economic development and social services programs.

#0608- Message and order authorizing the City of Boston to accept and expend ($6,235,976.00) in the form of a grant for the production of new affordable rental and homeownership housing, and also provide operating support for community development corporations.

#0609 - Message and orders authorizing the City of Boston to accept and expend ($3,734,533.00) in the form of a grant to fund services for income-eligible individuals and families affected by AIDS.

#0610 - Message and order authorizing the City of Boson to accept and expend the amount of ($3,734,533.00) in the form of a grant to fund the street outreach, emergency shelter, homelessness prevention, rapid re-housing assistance, and shelter services.

Housing & Community Development Hearing - Docket #0412, Order for a hearing to create a Renters' Bill of Rights for the City Of Boston

Housing & Community Development Hearing- Docket #0249- Order for a hearing to discuss the Impact of Inequitable Housing Code Enforcement of Boston's Proactive Rental Inspection Program.

Housing Committee Hearing - Docket #0157- Order for a hearing regarding the state of anti-displacement as to Boston's Acquisition Opportunity Program.

Housing & Community Development Hearing - Docket #1327, special protection zones

Docket #0926 & #1018 - Housing grants from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. These funds will be used to support programs that provide services and housing to the unsheltered homeless; and to support programs that provide services and housing to persons experiencing homelessness.

Docket #0357 - This hearing will discuss ways in which the City can provide residents a path to homeownership through a rent-to-own pilot program

Docket #0536 - Message and order authorizing the Mayor's Office of Housing to accept and expend payments in the amount of Forty Million Dollars ($40,000,000.00) given to the City of Boston's Inclusionary Development Policy for the purpose of producing and preserving affordable housing in the City of Boston

Docket #0537 - Message and order authorizing the City of Boston to apply for, accept and expend the Federal Fiscal Year 2022 Housing and Community Development funds from the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). This Order includes the following grant programs, with final awards estimated not to exceed the totals listed. Community Development Block Grant $18,000,000.00, HOME Investment Partnership Program $7,000,000.00, Housing Opportunities for Persons with AIDS $4,000,000.00 and the Emergency Solution Grant $2,000,000.00

Docket #0708 - Message and order authorizing the City of Boston, acting through the Mayor’s Office of Housing, to apply for, accept and expend the amount of Twenty One Million Five Hundred Ninety Seven Thousand Seven Hundred Ninety Seven Dollars ($21,597,797.00) provided under the HOME Investment Partnerships Program-American Rescue Plan (HOME-ARP) Act of 2021 from the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development. The purpose of the HOME-ARP funds is to provide housing to individuals, to households who are homeless, at risk of homelessness and other vulnerable populations in the City of Boston

Docket #0461 - Hearing regarding the state of affordable housing and Boston’s Inclusionary Development Policy

Docket #1024 - Hearing to Review Rental Unit Conditions, Standards, and Inspections in the City of Boston

Docket #1010 - Message and order authorizing the City of Boston to apply for, and to accept and expend, the Federal Fiscal Year 2021 Continuum of Care grant funds from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development in the amount not to exceed Forty Five Million Dollars ($45,000,000.00) These funds will be used to support programs that provide services and housing to persons experiencing homelessness

Docket #0367 - Hearing regarding homeownership assistance including for first-generation homeowners

Docket #0762 - Message and order authorizing the City of Boston to accept and expend the amount of Thirty Million Ninety Two Thousand Nine Hundred Ninety One Dollars and Thirty Cents ($30,092,991.30) in the form of a grant, Emergency Rental Assistance (ERA2), awarded by the United States Department of Treasury to be administered by the Department of Neighborhood Development. The grant will fund direct financial assistance, including rent, rental arrears, utilities and home energy costs, utilities and home energy costs in arrears and other expenses related to housing

Dockets #0453-0456,0472 - Grant appropriations from the United States Department of Housing & Urban Development to fund Community and Economic Development Programs, creation of affordable housing, rental assistance and services for Persons with HIV/AIDS, housing stability and prevention of homelessness, and support programs that provide services and housing to the homeless

Docket #0362- Hearing regarding existing residential unit diversity across Boston

Docket #03331 - Hearing regarding the state of affordable housing as to Boston’s Inclusionary Development Polic

Dockets #0262 - Twenty Million Six Hundred Seventy Thousand Eight Hundred Ten Dollars ($20,670,810.00) in the form of a grant for the Emergency Rental Assistance, awarded by the United States Department of the Treasury to be administered by the Department of Neighborhood Development. The grant will fund assistance to household that are unable to pay rent and utilities due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Docket #0894 - Hearing regarding increasing Public Housing

Dockets #0998, #0587, and #0218

Docket #0998 – Message and order authorizing the City of Boston to accept and expend the amount of Nine Million Seven Hundred Eighty-One Thousand Three Hundred Ninety-Three Dollars ($9,781,393.00) in the form of a grant from the CDBG FY20-Cares Supplemental, awarded by the United States Department of Housing & Urban Development to be administered by the Department Neighborhood Development. The grant would fund programs to help alleviate housing and economic crisis conditions caused by COVID-19

Docket #0587 – Hearing regarding the creation of temporary rental assistance to support residents impacted by COVID-19

Docket #0218 – Hearing to discuss ways to support tenants facing eviction and displacement

Docket #0389 - Order for a hearing regarding condominium conversion protections in the City of Boston

Docket #0817 - Hearing regarding the City of Boston to accept and expend the FY20 Emergency Solutions Grant- COVID-19 supplement funds, awarded by the United States Department of Housing & Urban Development

Dockets #0322 - Hearing regarding the current state of cooperative housing in Boston and strategies for its further expansion

Docket #0218 – Order for a hearing to discuss ways to support tenants facing eviction and displacement

Docket #0587 – Order for a hearing regarding the creation of temporary rental assistance to support residents impacted by COVID-19

Docket #0389 - re: condominium conversion protections in the City of Boston

Various Grants

Docket #0617 - Hearing to discuss rent relief for commercial and residential tenants in City and BPDA owned properties

Docket #0218 – Order for a hearing to discuss ways to support tenants facing eviction and displacement

Docket #0587 – Order for a hearing regarding the creation of temporary rental assistance to support residents impacted by COVID-19

Docket #1291 - Hearing to discuss updates on the implementation of the Short Term Rental Ordinance.

Joint Committee on City, Neighborhood Services & Military & Veterans Affairs

Docket #0583 - Hearing regarding vacant properties in the City of Boston

Docket #0316 - Hearing to discuss strategies to reduce and activate vacant residential properties in the City of Boston

Docket #0318 - Hearing to discuss the Senior Home Repair Program and other housing programs

Docket #0111 - Message and order authorizing the City of Boston to accept and expend the amount of One Hundred Twenty-Three Thousand Seven Hundred Fifteen Dollars ($123,715.00) in the form of a grant, for the FY19 Fair Housing Assistance Program, awarded by the United States Department of Housing & Urban Development to be administered by the Boston Fair Housing and Equity Commission.

Docket #0768 - Message and order authorizing the City of Boston acting through its Department of Neighborhood Development, to accept and expend payments in the amount of Thirty Million ($30,000,000.00) given by the City of Boston’s Inclusionary Development Policy Fund for the purpose of producing and preserving affordable housing in the City of Boston.

Docket #1183 - Message and order authorizing the City of Boston to apply for, accept and expend Federal Fiscal Year 2019 Continuum of Care Program grant funds from the United States Department of Housing & Urban Development in an amount not to exceed Thirty-Three Million Dollars ($33,000,000.00). These funds will be used to support programs that provide services and housing to the homeless

Docket #0144 - Order for a hearing to discuss the inclusionary development policy and affordable housing.

Docket #1341 - Hearing on gentrification and displacement in Roxbury

Docket #1040 - Hearing regarding affordable housing units and improving access to those units in the City of Boston

Docket #0178 - hearing regarding Speculation in the Boston Housing Market

Docket # 0293 - Hearing regarding the redevelopment of the One Charlestown Project

Dockets #0800, 0802- Grant appropriation for various housing programs