Town of Arlington, Fair Housing Action Plan (July 2021)

Citation: Town of Arlington, Fair Housing Action Plan (July 2021)
Jurisdiction: Arlington (municipal)
Source: Official source
Original Source: https://www.arlingtonma.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/57214/637641171662530000 ↗

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Housing Policy and Development
Previous Plans
In 2016, Arlington adopted a Housing Production Plan (HPP), which identifies six housing goals for the Town, as
well as numerous regulatory reforms, programming strategies, and resource allocation strategies that would help
to implement the plan’s goals. One of those goals, fostering an aging-supportive community via housing choices
that enable older adults to thrive in Arlington, explicitly relates to a protected class. Several others—such as
producing more diverse housing for extremely low- to middle-income households and integrating affordable
units in a range of housing types into the fabric of Arlington’s existing neighborhoods—do not directly reference
protected classes or fair housing, but generally aim to advance diverse housing options and housing
affordability. The Housing Plan Implementation Committee (HPIC) coordinates and promotes the implementation

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