Housing Policy
Action Center
Our product is information. Our outcome is change.
The Center's first report release
A first-of-its-kind statewide and regional analysis in Massachusetts or elsewhere, Shaping Action: Findings on Use of Housing Choice Vouchers explores who uses vouchers, where they’re used, and other characteristics, like time in program and work status.
Missed the webinar? Watch it in full on YouTube or view the slides.
Leveraging CHAPA’s place as a convener and bridge-builder, the Housing Policy Action Center strives to:
- Ask questions that matter
- Deliver rigorous research, partnering with top-notch academics and thinkers
- Activate ideas through CHAPA’s practitioner network
- Move the conversation forward into policies, programs, and systems that sustain a better Massachusetts
CHAPA’s legacy in policy research is decades-long.
We weren’t just early advocates for Chapter 40B. CHAPA published the first data-driven outcome analysis… in 1979.
Back then, our reports relied on hand-drawn graphs and paper questionnaires diligently mailed to all 351 cities and towns—336 responded.
Our methods have changed. Our intention is the same–push thinking and action towards what gets results.
Check out Jennifer Gilbert's Op-Ed in B&T!
Musicant Cohen Executive Director, Jennifer Gilbert, shares her vision for the Housing Policy Action Center in an op-ed in Banker & Tradesman.
