Tonight we passed the Affordable Housing Overlay. After years of advocacy, it is now legal & possible to build affordable housing in every neighborhood by right.

We been waiting for tonight for years! Here's our official statement tonight. https://www.abettercambridge.org/affordable_housing_overlay_passes

ABC was far from alone in its AHO advocacy. The late Cheryl-Ann Pizza-Zeoli, who dedicated her life to the fight for affordable housing, advocated for the AHO up until she died from cancer in April 2019, Friends of Affordable Housing, the Cambridge Economic Opportunity Committee/

, the Cambridge YWCA, Harvard and MIT students, and many other supporters of affordable housing showed their strong support throughout the process. City staff devoted many hours to writing and refining the ordinance, while also educating the public at community meetings. 2/2