Housing Production Plan

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.
 

Regulations 

Housing Production Plan Guidelines  file size 1MB (updated May 2013)

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) 

HPP Production Goals  (updated per 2010 census)

Housing Plans  - Approval/Expiration dates September 2003 to May 23, 2013

Map of Housing Production Plans: Current, Certified and Expired  (May 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