Waltham Inclusive Neighborhoods Autumn Social! 🗓️ 10/17/25 @ 6 PM 📍 Deep Ellum (467 Moody St) Connect with your neighbors, housing advocates and community leaders to discuss housing affordability and inclusivity. See you there!

After a short delay, the roommate housing hearing is back on for next Tuesday!

Waltham friends, and we’d love for you to join us at our next organizing meeting. We’ll be covering: • Updates on the city’s comprehensive zoning review • Statewide housing legislation in the works • Roommate housing as part of the affordability puzzle

The week ahead: City Council returns for the fall with a new zoning plan walthamtimes.org/2025/09/07/t...

The MA housing menu is broken—too few affordable options, too many zoning restrictions. The YIMBY Bill is the recipe for change. 🏡 Hearing Sept 17. 🍴 Sign the letter 🍴 Submit testimony 🍴 Share + spread the word Learn more at: www.abundanthousingma.org/takeactonyim...

Recent article with lots of context on 40B housing development in Waltham. Waltham will soon be able to limit new development through Chapter 40B walthamtimes.org/2025/08/24/w...

TODAY! ZBA meeting in support of more multi-family development in Waltham.

The good news is, there are many ways this situation can be improved! Most of the policies affecting Waltham and Massachusetts’ housing shortage are determined on the local level, so it takes local support to bring real change!

We need more housing. Every single Senator on the Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee voted to advance a landmark package to help get more homes built and make the federal government a better partner to local communities. Let's get this done.

📣 Join Waltham Inclusive Neighborhoods (WIN) for our August Organizing Meeting! 🏡 Let’s work together to bring more abundant and affordable housing to Waltham. All are welcome! 🗓️ When: Sunday, Aug 24th, 3:00-4:30 PM 📍 Where: Waltham Public Library - Trustees Room

also, “we can only build if no one can earn a profit” is just “we shouldn’t build” with a few extra steps

🎉 HUGE thanks to everyone who came out to our WIN potluck social in Waltham! Some incredible WINS together: the transformative MBTA Communities Act, the landmark ADU legalization, and our Democratic City Committees award! 🏆 Let's keep the momentum going! 💪

Building *slows* gentrification; and *not* building makes it much worse: "The findings suggest that not allowing more homes to be built—even for high-income residents—pushes up all rents, making it harder for low-income tenants to remain in their neighborhoods." -- www.pew.org/en/research-...

I mentioned recently that Salem, Massachusetts is proposing the elimination of parking minimums. A city councilor did a great FAQ on the proposal and on parking minimums generally. Some great information and talking points here!

Join WIN for a Summer Social this Friday at 6pm. Come connect with people in Waltham interested in promoting affordable, equitable, and sustainable housing in the city. Newcomers, longtime residents, families, friends, etc are all welcome. Please consider RSVPing at the link below:

📣 Join Waltham Inclusive Neighborhoods (WIN) for our July Organizing Meeting! 🏡 Let’s work together to bring more abundant and affordable housing to Waltham. All are welcome!

Waltham's city is targeting roommate housing! This hurts students & low-income residents who need shared living to afford rent. ACT NOW: 1️⃣ Ward 8/9: Email Councilors Harris/Logan & ZBA (template in bio) 2️⃣ ALL: Attend ZBA Hearing, July 15, 7 PM, Govt Center Basement. Support roommates!

As the average household size shrunk since 1960, the median size of a new home in America doubled. We have to get back to building a variety of housing in all of our communities, providing starter homes and places for people to downsize into as life circumstances dictate.

One Weird Trick cut in-town new-house prices in these three growing cities by $200,000. What was it? Zoning, of course. Read more in @ggwash.org:

We have our monthly organizing meeting this Sunday, June 29, at 3PM. You can join us either in-person at the library's Trustees Room or via zoom. We will be planning our future advocacy efforts regarding equitable zoning, affordable housing production, and city efforts to displace student renters.

“An RTD study found that 40 percent of parking spaces at market-rate housing and 50 percent of spaces at affordable housing near transit went unused at peak times… Each spot adds up to $50,000 to each home’s purchase price or $200-to-300 per month to rents.” www.westword.com/news/denver-...

🚨Action Alert: Support more homes on June 25th! Two of AHMA’s priority bills are being heard by the Joint Committee on Housing Wed., June 25 at 1 pm. We need your advocacy to get these bills passed. Sign-up to testify or submit written testimony here: www.abundanthousingma.org/%f0%9f%9a%a8...

Home prices compared to incomes are out of control in Massachusetts & Boston. We have to acknowledge this and try EVERYTHING possible to bring it more into balance. As the piece notes, "The force behind the growing gap between incomes and prices is the state’s housing shortage."

Zoning review meeting draws impassioned speeches from community walthamtimes.org/2025/06/08/z...

🎉 Thank you to everyone who came out to our May 29th Info Session for Comprehensive Zooning Review If you want more information feel free to reach out by message or by visiting our website at walthampolitics.com/win 📍Next stop: the Public Hearing on June 5 – Come to the meeting with your ideas!

Join WIN for its monthly organizing TODAY! We are committed to bringing more abundant and affordable housing to Waltham. We will discuss our current campaigns to support ADUs and create a citywide pro-housing coalition. Zoom link at: www.walthampolitics.com/event-calendar.html

The perfect visual representation of why Massachusetts has some of the highest housing prices, and the worst traffic, in America. We continue to double down on 70-years of failed land use patterns as our new housing production putters along at anemic levels. 📊 @ternerhousing.bsky.social

📣 Waltham Let’s Talk Zoning! 🏘️ Did you know that updating our zoning rules can help create a more inclusive and vibrant Waltham? Swipe through to learn about Waltham Inclusive Neighborhoods’ top 5 Zoning Priorities for a better future.

📢 Stand up for affordable housing in Waltham! 🗓️ Info Session: May 29, 6–7:30 PM 🗓️ Public Hearing: June 5, 6:30–8 PM 📍Gov Center, 119 School St 💬 Speak up for zoning reform! 🔗 walthampolitics.com/win

“This survey shows that the loud opposition that often show up at local planning meetings are actually a minority. Most people, when presented with practical solutions, seem ready to say yes to more housing.” www.bostonglobe.com/2025/05/16/b...

Big news for housing advocates: New polling shows strong, bipartisan support for more housing across Massachusetts—even when it means changes to neighborhood character or local control. The momentum is real, and it’s growing. www.abundanthousingma.org/resources/20...

Our new poll for @abundanthousingma.org is out this morning. "Poll Finds Strong Support for More Housing Development." bankerandtradesman.com/survey-finds...

The fewer the homes, the more expensive the homes. We are basically legislating this with zoning and building code restrictions

When we make it easier to build housing, we make it easier to house people.

📣 Join Waltham Inclusive Neighborhoods (WIN) for our April Organizing Meeting! 🏡 Let's work together to bring more abundant and affordable housing to Waltham. 🗓️ When: Sunday, April 27th, 3:00-4:30 PM 📍 Where: Waltham Public Library - Trustees Room 💻 Zoom Link: www.walthampolitics.com/event-calend...

Thank you WDCC for the recognition at Sunday’s Brunch! walthamtimes.org/2025/03/31/w...

More homes means more opportunities for everyone!

​Exciting news for Waltham homeowners! Massachusetts' new Affordable Homes Act allows ADUs by right in single-family zones. The Waltham City Council is currently finalizing local ADU regulations, and we'll share updates once they're approved. Stay tuned for more information!

Join WIN’s March Organizing Meeting and help make Waltham more affordable and inclusive! Meet us on Sunday, March 23, from 3:00 to 4:30 PM at the Waltham Public Library or on Zoom. Everyone is welcome! Learn more and get the Zoom link at www.walthampolitics.com/win.

“The right to have access to every building in the city by private motorcar, in an age when everyone possesses such a vehicle, is actually the right to destroy the city.” - Lewis Mumford

Huge thanks to everyone who joined us at Government Center today! Special thanks to CHAPA for making this happen and to our city officials for their support and leadership. Your commitment drives real change! If you want to get involve please email [email protected] or reach out to us.

Reminder! Please join us tomorrow at the Gov. Center Auditorium at 1pm!

This is one of the most-discussed housing reforms in state legislatures right now, and here is empirical proof that it’s safe, definitively refuting the only argument being made against single-stair building code reform.

🔥New Housing Report Alert! The Unlocking Housing Production Commission released a new report "Building For Tomorrow" to explore solutions on how to lower housing costs in Massachusetts. Read Full Report Here: www.mass.gov/doc/building...

A wrong and shameful move that panders to NIMBYs and fails to acknowledge that welcoming new neighbors helps communities thrive and grow (including their finances) www.bostonglobe.com/2025/02/24/b...

Don't forget tonight's Public Hearing at 7:30pm at City Hall! Hope to see you all there!

Congrats to our Food Not Bombs comrade Tom Benevides & Waltham Inclusive Neighborhoods on receiving a 2025 Heroes award from the Waltham Democratic City Committee! They work endlessly for fair housing prices in our city & the award is well deserved!🥰❤️❤️✌️👏👏

February organizing meeting this Sunday on Zoom!

WIN is hosting an info session this Saturday on upcoming changes to Waltham’s ADU regulations. You can attend in person at the library or via Zoom on our website.

There are 351 cities & towns in Massachusetts, but only one has ended exclusionary zoning everywhere. Congrats to Cambridge for leading on housing abundance. Special ❤️ to our board member Councilor Azeem & our members @ A Better Cambridge for spearheading this victory.