Abundant Homes

Whether we live here, work here or go to school here, we belong here. Brookline is our community.

Brookline flourishes when people of all ages and income levels are neighbors. Brookline’s diversity of activities and interests helps keep our urban landscape vibrant, and supports our small businesses and our cultural institutions. And perhaps most especially, we thrive best when our children are able to raise their families near us, and our seniors can age in place.

But Brookline and the Boston metro area are experiencing a housing shortage. Rising rents and home prices are forcing our children, our neighbors, our seniors and our town employees to move outside of Brookline, tearing at the fabric of our community and putting more cars on our already clogged and polluting roads.

We in Brookline must do our part to address the region’s housing crisis. So, rather than reinforcing our elite status as a wealthy suburb of single family homes by maintaining our current restrictive zoning codes, we need to make it easier for our underdeveloped areas to become complete neighborhoods, where a balance of housing, green spaces and businesses accessible via walking, biking and public transit create a human-scale economy where people of all ages and income levels can flourish.

Brookline's zoning and land use policies need to allow more housing by right so we can welcome new neighbors at every income level.