Video on why MBTA multifamily zoning law makes sense for Massachusetts

Watch this April 2023 panel to learn why housing solutions are critical in Andover, what housing solutions exist in Concord, North Andover and here in Andover and how you can be part of the solution so Andover can create a diversity of housing to attract and retain diversity in our town. We need to attract younger families with kids, we need workforce housing, we need service oriented workforce housing. Meeting the needs of our community and creating a vibrant, alive and diverse community requires that we have housing for all economic levels and all ages.

The Town of Andover does an excellent job of sharing publicly available information on affordable housing in Andover on its town website. Along with a mapped list of affordable housing, you can find links for senior housing rental options and contact information for all affordable housing in town.

A Housing Production Plan (HPP) is a community's proactive strategy for planning and developing affordable housing. Andover’s most recent HPP covers 2018-2022. The plan includes strategy as well as demographic profile including population and household trends, environmental justice, local housing conditions including rental and ownership trends and occupancies, housing development considerations and housing goals and strategies. This is a good place to start to learn about housing in Andover.

The Color of Law lays out the history of de jure segregation, with extensive footnotes, along with the resulting outcomes on an individual basis and for our country as a whole. We each must learn this history if we are going to successfully remedy the unconstitutional segregation we have allowed.

Since The Color of Law was published Rothstein has had numerous appearances to talk through the our nation’s history of racial segregation. His November 2020 webinar hosted by the Newton (MA) Free Library and Families Organizing for Racial Justice is a great option to hear the author share the the facts and history he writes about.

There is significant value in both economic and racial diversity to the entire community. A local panel of experts demystifies affordable housing and provides an update on Andover's affordable housing stock and opportunities for maintaining and growing affordable housing in the community.

CHAPA is a Massachusetts-based affordable housing nonprofit. You can read about CHAPA’s legislative priorities and help advocate for affordable housing in Massachusetts.

Grounded Solutions Network has a series of video interviews Bending the Arc that address how the CEO, Tony Pickett, sees the growth and expansion of the CLT model as a means to impact racial justice. You can also learn about applying a racial equity lens to housing to move toward justice.

Community Land Trusts, or CLTs, are nonprofit organizations that acquire, own and steward land for the common good. Grounded Solutions Network works nationally with CLTs, connecting local experts with the networks, knowledge, and support to promote housing solutions that will stay affordable for generations. Watch a short video on Community Land Trusts by Grounded Solutions Network that explains the basics of how a CLT works.

The short video, Segregated by Design, summarizes the facts Rothstein lays out in his book, The Color of Law, and is narrated by the author. This video is helpful to watch as a summary and to inspire you to read the book and become more educated on this critical history of how all levels of our government unconstitutionally segregated communities throughout the country.

Andover is one of 100s of Community Land Trusts across the country. For a full directory see the Schumacher Center for a new economics. Many of these CLTs are very active on social media— look for their instagram accounts and follow what other communities are doing.