October 15, 2024 - We are excited to announce the Strategic Plan that will take MAHA into 2029. In Fall of 2023, MAHA engaged with Community Action Partners (CAP), a volunteer consulting program of the Harvard Business School Association of Boston, to develop MAHA’s next strategic plan. The project offered MAHA staff and its Board of Directors an opportunity to review MAHA’s mission and vision, values, and Theory of Change, and develop new strategic goals and metrics for the next five years.
As MAHA envisioned the future, we kept coming back to the heart of our mission: Homeownership. Everyone in Massachusetts deserves equal access to affordable, sustainable homeownership. We know this is not the current reality. One only needs to look at our egregious racial homeownership gap to know homeownership is unattainable for so many but especially for people of color. In 2023, the rate of white homeownership in MA was 70.4% while the rate for Black households was 37.4% and Hispanic households was 31.9% (Prosperity Now, 2023 Assets and Opportunity Scorecard). It’s time for us all to get serious about closing the racial homeownership gap.
Homeownership is the key. To keep homeownership in the heart of the conversation, MAHA is changing our name. The Massachusetts Affordable Housing Alliance is now the Massachusetts Affordable Homeownership Alliance. This strategic plan will take us to 2029. We envision a state that is working to alleviate the housing crisis and close the racial homeownership gap. We’re ready to get to work. Let’s increase access to affordable, sustainable homeownership for everyone in Massachusetts.
