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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I support more affordable housing in Arlington, and I want Arlington's housing to support both diversity and
accessibility. I'm really glad Arlington is paying attention to Fair Housing, and found the historical information in
the draft document extremely helpful and interesting.
I very much like the recommendations (beginning on p. 101 and particularly like the approach in Strategy B.
Housing issues should have an ongoing structure for attention, support, and implementation. I also very much like
the zoning proposals (Strategy C) as a way to improve diversity of housing stock (I currently rent a mother-in-law
apartment in a residential house, and love having that option: additional accessory dwellings in town would be
fantastic.)

Comment 4
General

• Thank you to everyone who did work on this! I'm really glad we're doing this analysis.
• I appreciate the callout about sex vs. gender that appears in a couple places where you're using data
that asks about "Sex: M/F".
Proofing comments

• p. 26: In the legend for "Households with Children", the last two (darkest) shades of purple list "27.5"
where I suspect it should say "37.5".
• p. 59, final paragraph of Teardowns section - I'm not quite sure what's meant by "the previous property
would typically reap the benefits". Should this say "the previous property owner would typically reap the
benefits"?
• Also, for all the maps: Different shades of the same color are great for colorblind accessibility, but do
make it difficult to quickly identify which legend item a given town corresponds to unless it's lightest or
darkest. I'm not sure if there's an easy fix for this, but if so, it'd help usability.
Content comments - specific