December 9, 2021 - Dorchester, MA - Just a little over three years ago, MAHA celebrated its 30,000 graduate from its first-time homebuyer and homeowner education classes. This month, after a period of unprecedented growth combined with a pandemic that forced innovations in the delivery of the classes, MAHA is announcing that it has surpassed the 40,000 graduate mark.
Joint statement from CHAPA, MACDC, and MAHA on American Rescue Plan Act housing spending in Massachusetts
December 7, 2021
We thank the Legislature for passing a bill that invests over $600 million from the Commonwealth’s American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) Fiscal Recovery Funds into affordable housing. This funding will have a real impact on people’s lives by allowing us to quickly produce new affordable homes. We urge Governor Baker to sign this bill into law and put Massachusetts on a path to making homes more affordable and closing our racial homeownership gap.
Dorchester, MA — Massachusetts Affordable Housing Alliance (MAHA) incoming executive director Symone Crawford issued the following statement today after President Biden and Congressional leaders released the framework for the Build Back Better Act, which includes significant funding for affordable housing, including a first-generation down payment assistance program inspired by MAHA’s STASH matched savings program for first-gen homebuyers.
BOSTON, MA – On Wednesday, October 20, 2021, the Massachusetts Affordable Housing Alliance (MAHA) and the Madison Park Development Corporation hosted mayoral hopefuls Annissa Essaibi George and Michelle Wu at a virtual forum on making access to homeownership more equitable in Boston. Members of both organizations shared their stories and asked the candidates to commit to the most critical steps the new mayor can take to shrink the city's racial homeownership and wealth gaps.
We Are Hiring! Come join the senior management team at MAHA as Director of Homeownership Operations
MAHAis a non-profit community organization that is dedicated to increasing affordable homeownership, breaking down barriers for first-time and first-generation homebuyers, and closing the racial homeownership gap in Massachusetts.
October 5, 2021 - Dorchester, MA - MAHA's Board of Directors announced today the appointment of Symone Crawford as its next executive director. Board President Esther Dupie said, "We are excited that Symone will be leading us into the future and building on the success MAHA has had over the years."
MAHA met with all five candidates for mayor of Boston to get specific commitments for actions they will take to deliver on our Homeownership Justice Vision if they are elected. Here's what they said.
July 16, 2021 - Today, Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-CA), Chairwoman of the House Committee on Financial Services, filed three bills representing a generational investment in housing.
With goal of raising $100 million fund for STASH program, MAHA calls contribution a vote of confidence in the innovative program to stabilize BIPOC families and communities,and create generational wealth.
