Allston-Brighton Housing Action enjoyed talking with @mayorwu.boston.gov at the Rat City Arts Festival about support for legalizing more housing of all types and safer streets. We're excited about the AB Community Plan and creating a more resilient, affordable neighborhood! @planning.boston.gov

We will be honoring Louisa tonight, July 16, at City Hall Plaza and calling for safe streets, starting at 5:30. Many of us will be heading down via public transit, but there's an Allston-Brighton / Brookline bike convoy leaving from Packard's Corner, meet there at 5pm.

Kick off your holiday weekend with ABHA at Park Bagelry! July 3, noon. Talk with your neighbors while you beat the heat with their homemade ice cream or an iced coffee.

AB Housing Action held a pizza picnic on the new Allstonway at the ERC last evening. Fantastic new public plaza with 345 units of new housing + lots of bunnies! The cafes, hotel, lab buildings and Harvard conference center have ground floors open to the community to linger, work, read, and relax.

If you live in Allston-Brighton, please fill out the survey on the future of Jackson-Mann. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Join us this Sunday, June 14th, for our monthly Coffee with Neighbors, 12-1:30pm at Cafe Lava & Bento in Brighton Center. This is a great way to meet people and chat about how we can make a more affordable, livable and - dare we say - fun Allston-Brighton.

This is a good new video from Pew Research showing how filtering works. A few people moving into market-rate housing frees up older housing for people lower on the income chain. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQYM...

Building More Housing Creates 'Moving Chains' of Affordability

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Let your voice be heard at the next round of engagement for the Jackson Mann Community Center!

Housing hero in Marblehead...

Jonathan Berk 🏠@berkie1.bsky.social · 3mo ago

On its third attempt tonight, Marblehead Town Meeting approved an “MBTA Communities–compliant” district largely centered on the 125-year-old Tedesco Country Club, meeting 3A requirements on paper while all but assuring no new housing would be built. This comment says it all.

Safe streets are critical for our Boston neighborhoods Let's keep going, @mayorwu.boston.gov www.bulletinnewspapers.com/article/wher...

Let's help make Allston-Brighton livable and safe for everyone, no matter how you roll, walk or ride! www.bulletinnewspapers.com/article/alls...

Join Allston-Brighton Housing Action for our Love Your Block cleanup at Smith Playground this Saturday, April 25 10am start! 235 Western Ave. Great way to meet new folks and hear about our pro-housing advocacy. partiful.com/e/J5jtXG9gAc...

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Help your neighbors at Allston-Brighton Housing Action beautify Smith Playground as part of Love Your Block. Meet us at 10 am at the Quest Eternal statue to pick up litter in the park and around the n...

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Join the Boston Task Force (T4MA, Shared Spaces, BCU) for a rally before the crucial public hearing on street safety. We need to pack the room! 📅Wednesday, April 22nd, 2026 📣Rally: 1:15PM 🎤Hearing: 2:00PM 📍Boston City Hall

Examples of how cities and states are being creative about affordable housing, including Massachusetts. open.substack.com/pub/housingi...

Good Policies That Put Capital To Work

How State and Local Governments are taking practical steps to build and finance more affordable rental housing.

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Safe Streets Rally and Hearing this Wednesday 4/22 As the Globe has reported, safe streets projects across the city have been halted with no clear explanation, even losing existing funding. Please join WalkUP Roslindale along with other advocates, city councilors, and fellow residents for a rally…

Thank you, Councilor Durkan, for proposing the zoning amendment to eliminate arbitrary parking mandates! We're glad to see our Councilor Liz Breadon as a co-sponsor! open.substack.com/pub/rondurk/...

Big Amendment: I proposed eliminating parking minimums from our zoning code citywide

We're in a housing crisis after all!

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Eliminating parking construction requirements in new housing advances the City's climate and housing affordability goals and will make Boston a more pleasant place to live and work. Concerns about existing parking should be addressed through a parking management program - meters, permit lottery, etc

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@boston.gov City Councilors Sharon Durkan and Henry Santana Propose Eliminating Off-Street Parking Mandates for Housing In Boston #mapoli mass.streetsblog.org/2026/04/15/c...

Come to AB Housing Action's Coffee with Neighbors Sunday, April 12th, at Cafe Lava & Bento in Brighton Center. Great way to meet your neighbors in a relaxed setting!

Vague promises no longer enough for Allston and Brighton residents, who are planning a rally for a decent community center www.universalhub.com/2026/vague-p... #Boston

Our Allston-Brighton Housing Action letter to @mayorwu.boston.gov calling for funding a new Jackson-Mann Community Center. We're a community of mostly renters AND we work hard everyday for this city and our neighborhood. Stop the unequal treatment of neighborhoods and fully fund Jackson-Mann!

We are 80,000 residents in Allston-Brighton, but no funding for a functioning BYCF Community Center. Please write Mayor Wu to tell her we've been waiting for years, it's time to make a commitment to our neighborhood! nikhildasgupta.github.io/jackson-mann...

Barbara Parmenter@geoparmenter.bsky.social · 4mo ago

@mayorwu.boston.gov Why no funding in the budget for a new BYCF Community Center in Allston-Brighton? A neighborhood the size of Somerville, with no functioning Community Center. We've supported more development than anywhere in the city, contributing to property taxes and linkage. Yet nothing!

Allston-Brighton Housing Action's next Coffee with Neighbors Is coming up April 12th, noon to 1:30, at Cafe Lava&Bento in Brighton Center. Come join in conversation and meet new neighbors!

Hope to see our fellow Allston-Brighton residents this Saturday, March 14, at Allston-Brighton Housing Action's Coffee Hour, 11am at Cafe Lava and Bento in Brighton Center. It's a great way to meet friends old and new!

Change means confronting alot of laws which have broken our city, change means fixing the way we move around, how we design where we live, and reconnecting to each other without needing a car to do it. Its impossible to grow old here, its impossible to be a young professional here, we can do better

Jonathan Berk 🏠@berkie1.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Massachusetts didn’t become Massachusetts by playing it safe. Loving this Commonwealth means confronting what’s broken & choosing courage over complacency, now, not later. Change is coming. The real question is whether it happens TO us or BECAUSE of us. www.remainplaces.com/post/a-love-...

#Allston #Brighton come join your neighbors and meet new friends to talk about housing, zoning reform, and mobility this Sunday, Feb 15, at Cafe Lava &Bento in Brighton Center, 11:30am.

Truly a bummer that the city, 1. Contracted street plows that rammed the bike lane bollards over on Western Ave in Brighton 2. Didn’t even fully clear the bike lanes of the snow anyway 3. Didn’t use small plows to correctly clear the bike lanes leaving them safe and usable

Thank you, @planning.boston.gov for a good virtual Allston-Brighton Community Plan meeting last night where we talked about the need for zoning reform in our community. AB residents, come to the in-person meeting Feb 11, 6-8pm, and join ABHA afterwards at Devlin's! partiful.com/e/Tf9igDn3FH...

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Allston-Brighton Community Plan Public Meetings are coming up! There will be an in-person meeting on February 11th . Attend to learn more about this once-in-a-generation zoning update and share your v...

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HUGE thank you to everyone who came out. We made this stretch of the city safer and couldn't have done it without you. @bikeboston.bsky.social

Comm Ave now has a bike lane again thanks to the effort of this volunteer crew! This is just one street, and we don't have the plows that the city has. Let's get this done city-wide!

Nikhil Dasgupta gives a shout out to Allston-Brighton Housing Action and Aerosmith! www.instagram.com/reel/DUD3poA...