CMHA leads a collaborative response to homelessness that fosters long-term housing stability through prevention, shelter & safety net, public ed & advocacy.
Worcester, MA
Joined March 2013
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Prevention always pays off. Very good read.
Prevention pays off: How one city may soon end family homelessness
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Fact of the Week: Differences between Median Hourly Wage and Housing Wage Greatest for Women and People of Color
"An Estimated One in Five Renters Feels Pressured to Leave Their Home"
This is true for renters throughout Worcester County and the City of Worcester. Tenant eviction protections are critical to keeping tenants stably housed.
READ more below: urban.org/urban-wire/estimat…
Next up, @katedreynolds of @urbaninstitute is sharing new data concerning involuntary moves among renters. #NationalCall
Read more at: urbn.is/3YTc35c
We see this ugly rhetoric in cities and towns, too. But, it doesn't need to be this way & we must always speak out.
"It’s time to go on the offensive. Instead of trying to ignore prominent reactionaries, advocates for unhoused people should...write reports, op-eds & blog posts that fact-check them. Make sure journalists who cover this issue are aware of every falsehood" thenation.com/article/societ…
Median rent in Worcester and surrounding town is $1271 for a one-bedroom apartment.
"When new housing isn’t built, landlords benefit, low-income renters suffer and more people enter homelessness. A recent @USGAO report found that when a city’s median rent rises by $100, its homeless population increases by about 9%."
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"A new study found most Californians experiencing homelessness are living in the same county where they were last housed."
A new study found most Californians experiencing homelessness are living in the same county where they were last housed.
Read the @ucsfbhhi study here: homelessness.ucsf.edu/our-im…
We fully support this statement from @MAHomeless @CHAPAdotorg @MassLawReform on Healey-Driscoll Administration’s call to action for families experiencing homelessness and the appeal for coordinated state action.
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Thank you @RepMcGovern for coming to Leicester to discuss economic development, high school career pathways, housing security, and early ed opportunities in town with local officials and @CMHAonline @WCACinfo . Lots of positive energy in Town #MAPoli #MALeg
Thank you @aceworcester for having the @CMHAonline Public Ed & Advocacy program to share what we're seeing on the ground & how we can support families.
Congratulations to the young people for this fantastic research project & @WorcesterState for facilitating this!
Thanks to @Etel_Haxhiaj and @DavidLeBoeuf for coming to @aceworcester today for our community conversation on Worcester’s housing crisis. @WorcesterState facilitated this months-long project with ACE students.
"Holden has made itself the poster child for exclusion, for the kind of “not in my backyard” mindset that has helped make housing the scarce — and expensive — commodity it is in Massachusetts today. But Holden has had plenty of company along the way."
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NEW: The Worcester-based Central Massachusetts Housing Alliance (@CMHAonline) is suing Holden for defying a new state law aimed at increasing multifamily housing in communities near MBTA lines.
patch.com/massachusetts/worc… from @Neal_McNamara in the @WorcesterPatch – at Worcester, MA
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Excellent. We have an affordable housing crisis here in the UK too. We have laws that compel developers to provide a % of affordable housing under S106 but there are too many loopholes they can use to get out it.
I hope you win this case.
“Every municipality covered by this law, especially predominantly white, affluent towns like Holden, must relinquish exclusionary zoning and contribute to the cause.”
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@LCRBOSTON @BrownRudnickLLP @BostonGlobe
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“This lawsuit aims to support municipalities that are working to comply with the [MBTA Communities Zoning Law], by ensuring that recalcitrant towns like Holden do not shirk their obligations."
@LCRBOSTON @CMHAonline
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Kudos to @LCRBOSTON and @CMHAonline for their lawsuit against the Town of Holden's continued perpetuation of exclusionary zoning and their refusal to comply with the multifamily zoning requirements of the MBTA Communities Act
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Go get ’em @LCRBOSTON & @CMHAonline!
Kudos to @LCRBOSTON and @CMHAonline for their lawsuit against the Town of Holden's continued perpetuation of exclusionary zoning and their refusal to comply with the multifamily zoning requirements of the MBTA Communities Act
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Brown Rudnick and @LCRBOSTON filed a lawsuit on behalf of @CMHAonline and a low-income family searching for affordable housing against the Town of Holden for its refusal to comply with the Commonwealth’s new @MBTA Communities Zoning Law. Read more here: tinyurl.com/skyadk32
"We must maximize every available tool to keep central Massachusetts families housed in their communities of choice," CMHA CEO Leah Bradley said in a news release.
Thank you @LCRBOSTON & Brown Rudnick LLP!
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We stand in solidarity with this statement and mourn Jordan Neely. We call on an end to the hostility, violence & rhetoric against our unhoused community throughout the country and in our own community.
STATEMENT: @naehomelessness mourns the loss of Jordan Neely, an unhoused person who was killed in a senseless act of violence on a New York City subway car last week.
🧵The Alliance demands justice for Jordan Neely & calls for the following actions: buff.ly/3LMpdL4