Nearly 100 participants joined online to hear from experts on how Andover is embracing affordable housing, the challenges that exist, how the entire community benefits, and how to find affordable housing in Andover

Richard Rothstein, author of The Color of Law, wrote an opinion piece in The New York Times, The Black Lives Next Door, detailing the importance of developing skills to persuade powerful institutions to create necessary reform.

The model of the nonprofit Black Women Build is not dissimilar to ACT’s model to rebuild modest homes with local talent and sell them at affordable prices in order to change the trajectory of black women by helping them build home ownership. Amy Scott, of NPR, shares a story on the vitalization of one block in a West Baltimore neighborhood. Fabulous, short and interesting reporting to listen to while you walk or drive or make dinner.

Hear what you can do to participate in the work of affordable housing and meet the Andover Community Trust (ACT) new homeowners, a student builder and board members.

This CNN article looks at the persistent home ownership gap between races in this country and the type of reforms that are needed to close that gap

Our strength comes from our community. When Covid-19 closed schools and we lost our GLTS builders, Andover proved again that it is a strong, interconnected community helping to create alternatives to fulfill the needs at hand.

WBUR shares resources that may help you pay your rent or mortgage during the Covid-19 crisis.

Congress’s $2.2 trillion stabilization package allocated more than $12 billion for federal housing and rental assistance.

This story from the Sunday Business Section of the New York Times focuses on a town manager and his evolving views around affordable housing.

Progressive lawmakers on Capitol Hill Wednesday, including U.S. Rep. Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts’s 7th District, declared housing a fundamental human right.

The construction site across the street from Fresh Pond Reservoir in Cambridge looks like your typical scene from today's building boom in Massachusetts — but it's not. The wood, six-story Finch Cambridge is different than every other building going up in the state.

Hear what town leaders said about affordable housing in Andover as community members got a sneak peek into the first 100% permanently affordable housing community in Andover.