learn ABOut ZONINg

& Newton history

[Rev. 10/24/20]

Newton Materials

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• Mayor Fuller's Update on Zoning Redesign (9/25/20)

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• Newton's first zoning debates, 1920-25 (Alice Ingerson)

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• Newton Zoning Timeline, 1921–53 (Alice Ingerson)

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• Newton Zoning Maps, 1921–2018

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• Side-by-Side Comparison: 1938 Redlining Map & 2018 Draft Zoning Maps

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• Boston Area Race & Income Dot Maps (showing Newton)

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• Commentary: Newton's tarnished image (Bob Engler, Newton TAB, 7/12/15—re City's claim to have reached 1.5%-land-area Chapter 40B minimum)

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• HUD Complaint by Engine 6 Against the City of Newton (2013) and Conciliation Agreement (2015)

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• The character of the neighborhood in Newtonville (Rev. Howard Haywood, Newton TAB, 1/21/15)—re Austin Street debates

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• Myrtle Baptist Church: Pillar of the Community (2011 documentary)

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• Celebration of the Life and Mission of Rev. Howard Haywood (2018 event, including presentations by Nadine Cohen, David Harris, Hubie Jones, and Rev. Haywood, on fair and affordable housing)

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• African-American community of Newton has long legacy (Newton TAB, 2/28/17)

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• The Civil Rights Movement in Newton, 1950-1970 (pamphlet by Katherine Jones, Lillie Jefferson, Nina King, 2002)

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• Low–Moderate Income Housing Study (Newton Planning Dept., 1968). See especially, pp. 10–14, “Community Attitudes on Housing: The Dichotomy.”

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• Story of the Newton Community Development Foundation (NCDF Community News, 50th anniversary edition, Fall 2018)

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• Rte 128: Boston’s Road to Segregation (Joint report by MA State Advisory Committee to US Commission on Civil Rights & MA State Commission Against Discrimination, 1975)

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• City of Newton Plans, Policies, and Strategies

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webinars

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• Zoned Out: Why Massachusetts Needs to Legalize Apartments Near Transit (The Boston Foundation, 10/21/20)

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• Learning from Successful Strategies (Building a Better Brookline forum, 7/26/20)—​​​How Somerville, MA, and Minneapolis, MN, pursued zoning reform and increasing the supply of affordable housing, from both planning and advocacy perspectives.

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Websites, Studies, Reports

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• CHAPA (Citizens Housing & Planning Association)​

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• Black Lives Matter. (6/3/20 Statement by CEO Rachel Heller)​

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• The State of Zoning for Multi-Family Housing in Greater Boston (Amy Dain, June 2019)

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• MAPC (Metropolitan Area Planning Association)

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• Metro Mayors Coalition Housing Compact. "After factoring in the housing demand created by... new workers, the increasing number of senior households, and the changing needs of existing residents, we estimate that the [15 municipalities of the] Metro Mayors Coalition will need to add 185,000 housing units from 2015–2030 in order to meet demand and reduce—or at least stabilize—housing costs."​ [Newton is one of the 15.]

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• The Waning Influence of Housing Production on Public School Enrollment (Oct. 2017 research brief)

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• MA Smart Growth Alliance

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• The State of Zoning for Multi-Family Housing in Greater Boston (Amy Dain, June 2019)

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• MHP (Massachusetts Housing Partnership)

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• Center for Housing Data

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• TODEX (Transit-Oriented Development Explorer)​

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• Housing Toolbox

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• 2019 Greater Boston Housing Report Card: Supply, Demand and the Challenge of Local Control (The Boston Foundation)

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• 2020 Greater Boston Housing Report Card: A series exploring the impact of COVID-19 and inequity on housing in Greater Boston​ (The Boston Foundation)

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• Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies

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• Eliminating Exclusionary Land Use Regulations Should Be the Civil Rights Issue of Our Time (JCHS, 2019)

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• Overcoming Opposition to Multifamily Rental Housing (JCHS, 2007)

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• Lincoln Institute of Land

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• Housing Matters (Urban Institute resource)

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• City Observatory

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• Sightline Institute

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• Missing Middle Housing (Congress for the New Urbanism resource)

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• Local Housing Solutions (NYU Furman Center resource)

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• Supply Skepticism (NYU Furman Center, 2018)—report responding in depth to key arguments of those who doubt increasing supply of market-rate housing will result in housing that is more affordable.​

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General Articles, Podcasts

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• Newton takes aim at its history of single-family zoning (Boston Globe, 10/22/20)

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• Zoning and Land Use Rules are the Key to Affordability  (NewCities, 9/18/20)

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• Fixing Greater Boston’s housing crisis starts with legalizing apartments near transit (Brookings, 10/14/20)

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• Can Upzoning Newton Catalyze Housing Equality in Greater Boston? (Banker & Tradesman, 9/20/20))

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• Tear down this paper wall, Newton (Boston Globe, 8/23/20)

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• Housing will test white support for Black lives (Boston Globe, 8/21/20)

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• If We Are Serious About Racial Equality, We Need to Start in Our Own Neighborhoods (TIME, 9/17/20)

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• Housing’s Racial History (Land Matters podcast, 9/3/20)

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• A Conversation About Making Cities More Equitable (NY Times, 8/26/20)

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• Trump's ‘Suburban Lifestyle Dream’ Is Real: Just Look At Greater Boston’s Housing Plans (Cognoscenti, WBUR, 8/24/20)

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• The Black Lives Next Door (NY Times, 8/14/20)

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• Trump’s tweets about saving the “Suburban Lifestyle Dream,” explained (Vox.com, 8/3/20)

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• How Do We Change the Narrative Around Housing? (Shelterforce, 7/27/20)

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• Zoning is major artery of systemic racism (CommonWealth, 7/27/20)​

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• To Avoid Integration, Americans Built Barricades in Urban Space (The Atlantic, 6/20/20))

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• What Is Owed (NY Times, 6/3/20)

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• Now is the time to embrace density (NY Times, 5/12/20)

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• The Cities We Need (NY Times, 5/11/20)

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• America’s Cities Could House Everyone if They Chose To (NY Times, 5/15/20)

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• Newton and other communities must reform housing approval process (Boston Globe, 3/8/20)

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• Will upzoning neighborhoods make homes more affordable? (Curbed, 1/30/20)

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• The Neighborhoods We Will Not Share (NY Times, 1/20/20)

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• “Gentle” density can save our neighborhoods (Brookings Institution, 12/4/19)

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• Zoning and Race: If Black Lives Matter, then City Zoning Laws Must Change (Nonprofit Quarterly, 7/1/20)

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• Minneapolis Saw That NIMBYism Has Victims (CityLab, 10/24/19)

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• “You have a better chance of achieving ‘the American dream’ in Canada than in America” (Ezra Klein Show, vox.com, 8/15/19)

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• How Segregation Caused Your Traffic Jam (NY Times, 8/14/19)

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• Cities Start to Question an American Ideal: A House With a Yard on Every Lot (NY Times, 6/18/19)

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• The Scarlet E: Unmasking America’s Eviction Crisis (On the Media podcast series, June 2019)

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• How ‘redlining’ dashed dreams, hurt neighborhoods (Dorchester Reporter, 5/29/19)

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• This Is How You Slow-Walk into a Housing Shortage (Sightline Institute, 5/23/18)

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• Home Values Remain Low in Vast Majority of Formerly Redlined Neighborhoods (Zillow, 4/25/18)

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• How Redlining’s Racist Effects Lasted for Decades (NY Times, 8/24/17)

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• ‘Exclusionary zoning’ is opportunity hoarding by upper middle class (Brookings, 5/24/17)

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• The Case for Reparations (The Atlantic, June 2014)

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