Resources and Links

This section contains guidebooks created by MHP's Community Housing Initiative department.

Guidebook: Community Preservation Act and Affordable Housing MHP and the Citizens' Housing and Planning Association's guidebook on how to use CPA funds for afforable housing.

Guidebook: Developing Housing on Public Land This guidebook is designed to help communities and housing authorities develop affordable housing on public land.

Guidebook: Developing housing on public land - one-page checklist MHP commissioned housing consultant John Ryan to produce a development primer to serve as a checklist of what needs to be done to develop affordable housing on public land.

Guidebook: MHP's Housing Needs Workbook The Housing Needs Workbook is designed to assist communities in assessing local housing needs for families, seniors, special needs populations, and owners and renters.

Guidebook: MHP's Housing Partnership Guidebook MHP created this guide to help community members effectively organize a housing partnership.

Guidebook: Municipal Affordable Housing Trust How to envision, shape, get support and succeed with your community's local housing trust.

Guidebook: Town of Lincoln's Declaration of Trust This document is the Town of Lincoln's Declaration of Trust and is provided to support MHP's Municipal Affordable Housing Trust guidebook. Once a housing trust is approved by the legislative body of the municipality, one of the first acts of the newly appointed board of trustees is to approve the Declaration of Trust. The Declaration of Trust is the formal document describing the organizational structure and the specific powers of the housing trust. This document is recorded at the Registry of Deeds.

Receivership: MHP/AGO Receivership Handbook This handbook is a resource for municipal officals interested in implementing receivership in their community as a tool to combat neighborhood blight.

Report: Unified Development Corp. Business Plan Written by VIVA consulting in October 2009, this report tries to answer the question: would it be viable to create a more centralized structure for real estate development and asset management to operate in partnership with local nonprofits in such a way that strengthens the collective impact?