housing

Every child needs a safe place to call home. We help people develop the financial resources and life skills they need to find and secure safe and affordable housing. Current efforts include:

• Housing First
• Pathways Project
• Funding Futures
• RealBenefits
• Earned Income Tax Credit
• Survey Results: Financial Education for Low and Moderate Income Populations

United Way's Affordable Housing Impact Council

Our Impact Councils develop and monitor strategic plans, establish benchmarks of success and evaluate results. We will continue to expand our Council membership to include a cross-section of perspectives, ethnicities and disciplines. Current Affordable Housing Council members include:

• Dr. Dana Ansel, Research Director
  Massachusetts Institute for a New Commonwealth (MassINC)
• Dr. Xavier de Sousa Briggs
  Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
• Aaron Gornstein, Executive Director
  Citizens Housing and Planning Association
• Joseph Kriesberg, President
  Massachusetts Association of Community Development Corporations
• Richard Taylor, Chairman
  Taylor Smith Properties Inc.
• Dr. J. Larry Brown, Executive Director
  Center on Hunger & Poverty, Brandeis University
• Robyn Frost, Executive Director
  Massachusetts Coalition for the Homeless
• Lisa Guscott, President and CEO
  Long Bay Commercial Properties
• Bernard Morrissey, Senior Vice President, New England Division
  Skanska USA Building, Inc.