We are a diverse coalition of nonprofit and for profit developers, healthcare companies, service providers, policy organizations and advocates working to scale housing options
Coalition Leadership Team
United Way of Massachusetts Bay
We unite to create positive, lasting change for people in need. We call it harnessing the power of people working together. And that means everyone — individuals, nonprofits, companies, and government agencies.
We work every day to achieve our vision and mission by focusing on two foundations of better lives: Financial Opportunity and Educational Success. Specifically:
Financial Opportunity: Ensuring that all families have safe housing, healthy food, and quality childcare; that they have jobs that allow them to support themselves and their families; and that they have access to financial tools and coaching to help build a better future.
Educational Success: Preparing children so they can enter school ready to learn, develop critical social and academic skills, and get the support they need to stay in school and graduate.
Citizens Housing and Planning Association
Born out of a small group of community leaders who understood that housing was a critical issue of the civil rights movement in 1967, Citizens' Housing and Planning Association (CHAPA)'s mission is to encourage the production and preservation of housing that is affordable to low and moderate-income families and individuals and to foster diverse and sustainable communities through planning and community development.
CHAPA helped create the Massachusetts Affordable Housing Law, which was developed so that families and individuals with low and moderate incomes could find safe and affordable homes in every city and town in the Commonwealth. CHAPA also helped create our own state rental subsidy programs, the state’s Low Income Housing Tax Credit, and the strongest expiring use law in the nation (Chapter 40T).
Western Massachusetts Network to End Homelessness
The Western Massachusetts Network to End Homelessness (WMNEH) creates collaborative solutions across Hampden, Hampshire, Franklin and Berkshire Counties to prevent and end homelessness through a Housing First approach that centers racial equity.
The Network accomplishes its mission by:
Convening providers and community partners across every sub-population – individuals, families, youth and young adults and veterans – to share best practices, innovative solutions and opportunities for new and continuing resources
Coordinating among state agencies, state legislators, municipal leaders and providers to advance an effective regional response to the homelessness and housing crisis
Advocating as a region for state and federal budget and policy priorities to further the WMNEH mission
Supporting trainings on current policies and best practices, coordinated with the support of the Hampden County and Three County Continuums of Care
Offering an online communication vehicle through the network blog of 750 subscribers that includes advocacy opportunities, trainings, funding opportunities and information resources
Organizing annual regional gatherings of western Massachusetts legislators, mayors, and 150 Network partners to review impact, build broad-based support for the mission and advocate for budget and policy reforms
Massachusetts Housing and Shelter Alliance
At the Massachusetts Housing & Shelter Alliance (MHSA), we believe that ending homelessness requires transforming the way Massachusetts addresses it.
Homelessness is a public health crisis, as well as an economic one, and it is the result of system failures, as people struggling with housing affordability, medical and behavioral health conditions and other challenges fall through the cracks in the systems that are meant to serve them. Too often, these individuals are forced to rely on expensive emergency room and hospital visits, the corrections system, emergency shelters and the streets to provide them with a place to stay.
But hope exists. We know these challenges are not insurmountable because we’ve seen how the creation of long-term housing solutions aimed at ending homelessness changes lives.
Massachusetts Association for Mental Health
Vision
MAMH envisions a day when all Massachusetts residents have access to the social and economic opportunities that protect overall health and promote resilience.
Mission
Advance mental health and well being by promoting prevention, early intervention, effective treatment and research to address social, emotional, and mental health challenges. Eliminate stigma and discrimination and ensure full social, economic, and political inclusion in all aspects of community life.
Coalition Members
1. United Ways of Massachusetts (16 chapters)
2. Heading Home, Inc
3. Caritas Communities
4. Massachusetts Association for Mental Health (MAMH)
5. Horizons for Homeless Children
6. Massachusetts Association of Behavioral Health Systems
7. Central Massachusetts Housing Alliance
8. Western Massachusetts Network to End Homelessness
9. Preservation of Affordable Housing
10. Chelmsford Housing Authority/CHOICE Inc
11. Pine Street Inn
12. UnitedHealthcare
13. Eliot
14. Barnstable County Department of Human Services - MA-503 Cape Cod and Islands
15. National Association of Social Workers - MA Chapter (NASW-MA)
16. City of Springfield
17. City of Taunton Department of Human Services
18. Urban Edge
19. WinnCompanies
20. Valley Community Development
21. Action Inc.
22. Catholic Charities
23. CHAPA
24. Greater Lawrence Community Action Council
25. HomeStart
26. Somerville Homeless Coalition, Inc.
27. Lynn Housing Authority and Neighborhood Development
28. The Neighborhood Developers
29. Roxbury Stone House
30. YWCA Malden
31. South Coast Regional Network to End Homelessness
32. LEO Inc.
33. New Hope, Inc.
34. Beacon Communities, LLC
35. Children's Services of Roxbury
36. Union Capital Boston
37. Victory Programs, Inc.
38. Malden City Council
39. Everett Haitian Community Center (TheEHCC)
40. Father Bills & MainSpring
41. Three County CoC
42. Harborlight Homes (Harborlight Communit
43. Community Action Agency of Somerville, Inc.
44. Massachusetts Housing & Shelter Alliance (MHSA)
45. WinnCompanies
46. La Colaborativa
47. Bay Cove Human Services
48. The Boston Foundation
49. Commonwealth Land Trust
50. CSH
51. Community Teamwork
52. TAC
53. Continuum of Care
54. Mental Health Association
55. North Shore Community Action Programs
56. New England Association of Schools and Colleges
57. Allston Brighton Community Development Corporation
58. Craig's Doors - A Home Association, Inc
59. Steppingstone, Inc
60. Housing Assistance
61. NeighborWorks Housing Solutions
62. Community Counseling of Bristol County
63. Housing Families Inc.
64. MA Association of CDCs
65. SoCo
66. Volunteers of America, MA
67. Boston Medical Center
68. Greater Lawrence Community Action Council
69. High Point
70. SEMCOA
71. MA Continuums of Care Network
72. Project Place
73. Baystate Medical Center
74. Cambridge Continuum of Care (MA-509)
75. On The Rise
76. Hearth, Inc.
77. Wellspring House, Inc.
78. The Midas Collaborative
79. Boston Public Health Commission
80. Transition House
81. Hildebrand Family-Self Help Center