Overview
A Housing Production Plan (HPP) is a community's proactive strategy for planning and developing affordable housing by: creating a strategy to enable it to meet its affordable housing needs in a manner consistent with the Chapter 40B statute and regulations; and producing housing units in accordance with the HPP.
The HPP regulation became effective on February 22, 2008 when the DHCD promulgated 760 CMR 56.00, Comprehensive Permit; Low or Moderate Income Housing. The HPP regulation is contained in 760 CMR 56.03(4). HPPs replace Planned Production under 760 CMR 31.07(1)(i).
If a community has a DHCD approved HPP and is granted certification of compliance with the plan by DHCD, a decision by the Zoning Board of Appeals (ZBA) relative to a comprehensive permit application will be deemed "consistent with local needs" under MGL Chapter 40B. "Consistent with local needs" means the ZBA's decision will be upheld by the Housing Appeals Committee.
Housing Production Plan Guidelines 
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) 
HPP Production Goals
(updated per 2010 census)
Housing Plans
- Approval/Expiration dates September 2003 to February 25, 2013
Map of Housing Production Plans: Current, Certified and Expired
(Nov 2012)
Map of Housing Production Plans: Current, Certified and Expired
(Dec 2011)
DHCD Certified Communities
(updated August 29, 2012)
Workshops, Presentations and Training
Chapter 40B: Past, Present & Future Conference Materials
40B Highlights file size 1MB
DHCD Guidelines: Affirmative Fair Housing Marketing Plans file size 1MB
Other Resources
Massachusetts Housing Partnership - Housing Needs Workbook
DHCD Approved Plans:
Abington Plan
Acton Plan file size 2MB
Amesbury Plan - contact Town Hall at 978-338-8118
Ashburnham Plan file size 1MB
Barnstable Plan 2010 file size 1MB
Barnstable Plan
Barnstable Town Plan
Bedford Plan
Bellingham Plan file size 1MB
Berlin Plan file size 2MB
Billerica Plan file size 3MB
Bolton Plan
Bourne Plan- contact Town Hall at 508-759-0615
Boxborough Plan file size 3MB
Boxford Plan
Boylston Plan
Brewster Plan file size 1MB
Bridgewater Plan file size 21MB
Carlisle Plan
Carver Plan
Chelmsford Plan file size 3MB
Concord Plan file size 5MB
Dartmouth Plan
Dennis file size 2MB
Dighton Plan file size 5MB
Douglas Plan
Dunstable Plan file size 2MB
Duxbury Plan file size 2MB
Eastham Plan
Easton Plan file size 3MB
Falmouth Plan
Falmouth Plan; file size 1MB
revised January 09
Foxborough Plan file size 1MB
Franklin Plan file size 2MB
Georgetown Plan file size 3MB
Grafton Plan
Groton Plan
Groveland Plan file size 2MB
Hamilton Plan file size 3MB
Hanover Plan
Harvard Plan
Harwich Plan file size 1MB
Holliston Plan
Hubbardston
Hopkinton Plan file size 1MB
Ipswich Plan
Kingston Plan
Lakeville Plan file size 1MB
Lenox Plan file size 2MB
Lincoln Plan file size 2MB
Littleton Plan file size 3MB
Lynnfield Plan
Lunenburg Plan file size 1MB
Mansfield Plan
Marshfield Plan file size 2MB
Marion Plan
Marshfield
Mashpee Plan
Medway Plan file size 6MB
Merrimack Plan file size 6MB
Middleborough Plan - contact Town Hall at 508-946-2425
Natick Plan file size 1MB
Nantucket Plan
North Andover Plan file size 2MB
Northboro Plan
Norwell Plan
Peabody Plan
Pepperell Plan file size 5MB
Petersham Plan
Plymouth Plan file size 1MB
Quincy Plan
Raynham Plan file size 5MB
Reading Plan file size 2MB
Rowley Plan
Salisbury Plan - contact Town Hall at 978-463-2266
Sandwich Plan
Sharon Plan file size 1MB
Scituate Plan file size 5MB
Southborough Plan
Southampton Plan file size 2MB
Stoughton Plan file size 2MB
Stoughton Plan file size 1MB
(2006
Sterling Plan
Stow Plan file size 2MB
Sudbury Plan file size 1MB
Sunderland Plan file size 12MB
Templeton Plan file size 23MB
Tewksbury Plan file size 8MB
Townsend Plan
Truro Plan file size 1MB
Tyngsboro Plan file size 8MB
Upton Plan file size 7MB
Wakefield Plan
Walpole Plan
Wareham Plan
Wayland Plan file size 1MB
Wenham Plan file size 6MB
West Newbury file size 1MB
Westford Plan file size 4MB
Westminster Plan file size 5MB
Westport Plan file size 1MB
West Newbury Plan file size 34MB
Wilmington Plan
Wrentham Plan
Yarmouth Plan file size 1MB