The Mayor's Office of Housing is responsible for developing affordable housing, housing the homeless, and managing the City’s real estate. We also work to ensure that renters and homeowners can find, maintain, and stay in their homes.
neighborhood_development_logoResources to help renters settle landlord disputes, avoid eviction, and find help in the event of a fire.
Find Affordable Housing Learn about the types of affordable housing and search for available units. Tools for Homebuyers Information on the City's financial assistance programs, workshops, and lotteries. Tools for Homeowners Help avoiding foreclosure, and learn about home repair and improvement programs. Resources for Landlords Information about renting to low-income tenants and working with problem tenants. Resources for Developers Resources for buying City-owned property and submitting a Request for Proposals. Help for Those Experiencing Homelessness Learn about our progress ending homelessness and find services for those experiencing homelessness.Mayor Wu’s Housing Strategy is a blueprint that will shape Boston’s housing story. It reflects the work being done by the Wu Administration, including the Mayor’s Office of Housing, the Boston Housing Authority, and the Boston Planning and Development Agency to develop systematic approaches to address our housing challenges so that all residents have access to safe, healthy, and affordable housing.
The Boston Housing Strategy 2025 lays out big new housing policies and programs being pursued in the short term and those already being implemented to make Boston a family-friendly city that works for kids, seniors, workers, and everyone who wants to make it home. It provides tools to stabilize the housing market through new mixed-income and affordable housing development, reduce racial disparities through homeownership and development opportunities for BIPOC-led organizations, and move forward Boston’s Green New Deal through transit-oriented development and green retrofits of existing housing. Explore the Strategy to learn more about key housing priorities, how we’ll advance them, and the housing production and other numeric goals we’ll use to assess progress.