Housing Trust

The Town of Belmont is partnering with the Metropolitan Area Planning Council (MAPC), the regional planning agency for Greater Boston, and Metro West Collaborative Development, a regional nonprofit, to update the town’s Housing Production Plan (HPP).

An HPP includes strategies for creating new housing in the next five years in ways that respond to local housing needs and advance the community’s housing goals. Your input will help ensure that the goals and strategies in Belmont’s next HPP reflect the community’s priorities!

You can review the content of the survey at your own pace, and start and stop as much as needed. The survey will be open through December 2.

Click Here to Access the Survey

Click Here to visit the project website for more information

About the Belmont Housing Trust 

The Belmont Housing Trust was enacted by the Massachusetts Senate and House of Representatives and is supervised by the Board of Selectmen. Chapter 126 of the Acts of 1999 details the establishment of this nonprofit corporation.  

The Trust's duties are to investigate and implement alternatives for the provision of and providing affordable housing for persons of low, moderate and middle income, and others in the Town of Belmont whose needs may be identified from time to time.

Imagining Belmont's Housing Future - Forum held June 14, 2016

On June 14, 2016, the Housing Trust, with the support of the Metro West Collaborative Developers, held a forum to discuss Belmont's housing future.  The participants listened to presentations on the need for housing and discussed potential opportunities to develop housing in Town.  

The PowerPoint presentations can be found at the links below:

• 'Unlock the Commonwealth - How strong local leadership and new state policy can help Massachusetts realize its full potential'

• Demographic Indicators for the Town of Belmont 

Member of WestMetro HOME Consortium - 

The Housing Trust is a member of the WestMetro HOME Consortium. The Town is one of thirteen (13) communities from the surrounding area that receives funding from the federal government - the Town receives approximately $35,000 for the maintenance, preservation and construction of affordable housing.  For further information on the HOME Consortium, please contact  Robert Hummel, Senior Planner in the Office of Community Development at 617-993-2666.

Affordable Housing Developments developed by the Housing Trust: 

1. Waverley Woods Affordable Rental Housing Development
2. B Street
3. Brighton Street    

Meet Belmont Podcast overview of the Belmont Housing Trust

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