Housing Choice Coalition

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YWCA The Greater Newburyport Housing Choice Coalition

Save the date: Next Meeting, March 13, 2025 at  6 pm at the Newburyport Senior Center.  Meeting will focus on ADU’s: Accessory Dwelling Units.

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Friday, 1/17/2025:

Happy New Year to all of all you housing advocates!  The new year begins with a January 30 meeting at 6PM at the YWCA. The meeting will be hybrid as usual and our agenda is as follows:

• An overview of the Smart Growth America Grant.  This grant will focus on zoning – a review of the existing zoning in our five communities – with a goal of making recommendations for zoning changes that will result in increased housing development.
• The Status of planned zoning changes in each community
• New Social Media enhancements for the Coalition.  We received a grant from CHAPA to fund an intern who will work on increasing our social media.  Volunteers are needed to provide content.
• Grassroots organizing efforts in each community.  We need volunteers to to coordinate a door-to-door outreach campaign with handouts.

This meeting will require registration since we are using a new ZOOM link. Register Here.

After registering you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.

January 30, 2025 Flyer Here

We will also be saying good-bye to our friend and supporter from CHAPA – Monica Keel. – since this will be her last meeting with us  Please come and help us celebrate Monica and all the good work she has helped us accomplish.

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Full calendar of events:  2024

November meeting cancelled.

YWCA Greater Newburyport Housing Choice 
Coalition celebrates its one - year anniversary 
as a CHAPA "Engaging Community."

Join us via Zoom and help us plan the future.

 Full Press Release Here

10/17/24

Amy Dain “Exclusionary by Design”

Learn how zoning enforces racial and class discrimination and “What To Do About It.”

Amy Dain: Full Press Release here

9/19/24

Housing Choice Coalition Invites Community Input at Upcoming Meeting

NEWBURYPORT, MA – The YWCA Greater Newburyport Housing Choice Coalition will hold its next meeting on Thursday, September 19, at 6:00 PM at the YWCA in Newburyport. The meeting, is titled “Plan and Organize for the Future of our Coalition,” and will engage community members in shaping the coalition’s future efforts. Read More

8/14/24

North Shore Pre-Housing Summer Social.  HCC is proud to serve as one of th eco-sponsors of the North Shore Pro-Housing Summer Social: an event designed to bring together housing advocates from communities across the North Shore.

Wednesday, 8/14/24 6:00 – 9:00 pm.  Click here to register.

8/1/24

Join us at “Know Your Community Day” Thursday, 8/1/24 from 10-2  pm at the Newburyport Senior Center.  Come and learn more about the YWCA Housing Coalition and the many resources we provide to the community.  Sponsored by the 2024 Yankee Homecoming Committee.

Our Mission

Our Mission is to support housing equity and justice in the Greater Newburyport area.  We believe that our community can and should be welcoming and inclusive, with housing options to meet the needs of people of difference incomes, abilities, household types, and stages of life.  We support the creation of new housing, and the upgrading of existing housing for households with limited incomes, and/or special needs, and the developments that encourage reuse of existing structures.

The YWCA Greater Newburyport Housing Choice Coalition will actively support policies, zoning changes, developments and projects that will further the creation of housing in Greater Newburyport to address diverse housing needs, including housing for those who work in Greater Newburyport. We seek to collaborate with residents and others who care deeply about Greater Newburyport and want to join us in assuring that our community is thriving, welcoming, and inclusive.

Our History

The Coalition was formed in 2023 as a program managed and supported by the YWCA Newburyport in cooperation with the Citizens Housing and Planning Association (CHAPA). CHAPA is the leading affordable housing advocacy organization in Massachusetts.

Our Communities

The Coalition serves the communities of Amesbury, Newburyport, Newbury, West Newbury, and Salisbury.