Our product is information. Our outcome is change.

Leveraging CHAPA’s place as a convenor 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.

Stay tuned for updates!