Allston-Brighton Housing Action

Allston is building housing! Come walk with ABHA this Saturday, October 31, to see housing currently being built and talk about how we can plan for more. @planning.boston.gov

Allston-Brighton Housing Action's Coffee with Neighbors is back this coming Sunday, October 18. Cafe Lava & Bento in Brighton Center, noon to 2pm. All are welcome!

We appreciate the new speed humps on two of our dangerous streets in Allston Brighton and look forward to more safety measures in the neighborhood. We should all be able to get around safely. Thank you and keep it up, @streets.boston.gov and @mayorwu.boston.gov !

I'm loving our new speed humps on Parsons St and Glenville Ave in Allston Brighton. These make all of us safer! Thank you @streets.boston.gov and @mayorwu.boston.gov

Yes, it would be good to see subsidies established in a systematic way. Oregon recently passed funded inclusionary development legislation. Here's a good write-up from the Sightline Institute: www.sightline.org/2026/03/05/o...

Great news for Allston-Brighton! 3 previously approved projects could be unlocked. www.dotnews.com/2026/09/14/b...

We have our regularly scheduled General Meeting coming up on Monday, and a fun social walk around the neighborhood one week from today. Check out our website for more details and more upcoming events!

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...

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

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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...

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...

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/...

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

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...

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

#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...

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!

Glad to see our Allston-Brighton Councilor Liz Breadon supporting more housing! And we thank the editors of Allstonia for this interview with her. allstonia.com/2026/01/08/f...

Congratulations to our Allston-Brighton District 9 City Councilor, Liz Breadon, for being elected City Council President! www.wbur.org/news/2026/01...

It was great talking with Alllstonia reporter, John Lin, about the Allston-Brighton Community Plan. Laying the groundwork for an abundant future where everyone can thrive! @planning.boston.gov allstonia.com/2025/11/23/t...

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Hope to see these in Massachusetts soon!

Read this whole thread, and congratulations California YIMBY!

A new poll of Boston residents on housing finds; 💰73% think cost of renting or buying is a 'MAJOR PROBLEM' 👎74% rate City's response as fair or poor 🏗️81% say City "needs to allow more homes" 🏡80% support a goal of 30,000 new homes 🚇71% support 12-story buildings near MBTA

“A lot of times, we’re reluctant to change on really dumb things.” Many of the rules shaping what we can and can’t build today were written 50–60 years ago. If we want to meet Massachusetts’ modern housing needs, everything should be on the table for reform. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/05/o...

We hope to see #Allston #Brighton folks at the AHMA Boston City Council At-Large Candidates Forum this Thursday! Easy ride via the 66 bus! Speak up for more housing!

New Boston polling our this morning, for @abundanthousingma.org www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/06/b...