HISTORY
Timeline of Budget Justice Organizing in Boston
Clarified the People's Budget vision and FY27 budget priorities of housing, food access and immigration support via working groups and an assembly.
Organized thousands of residents to rally and testify at City Hall and contact City Councilors and Mayor about resident budget priorities.
As a result of our organizing the City Council amended over $11M in budget changes, $6.5M of which came directly from BBA demands.
BBA launches arts and culture committee and an Artist in Residence program
In April we launched the People's Budget campaign, conducting 10 budget workshops, outreach at 50 community events and spoke to 700 residents by early fall about their budget priorities.
In November we held our first People's Budget Assembly to decide on budget priorities for the $4.8B operating budget.
In April the BBA held a Grassroots Budget Briefing to lift up resident priorities in many issue areas and ask our City Councilors to support them in their operating budget amendments. We continued to advocate for 1% of the budget to be decided via PB.
In July, the first round of the city-wide Ideas in Action PB process kicked off with $2M. Bostonians submitted over 1200 ideas and 4,462 residents voted in January 2025.
BBA made a public call for residents to express interest in joining the PB Advisory Board and organized to get someone from that resident slate on the board.
We called for a community-city co-led PB designed to advance racial and economic justice.
We won equity criteria and goals in the design, but the city declined to design PB around repair for BIPOC neighborhoods harmed by redlining and disinvestment.
We advocated that the city dedicate at least 1% of the city budget to participatory budgeting.
Diseñar el proceso del PP y redactar una ordenanza municipal.
Councilor Edwards files Charter Amendment. Voters come out in masses to vote in an overwhelming majority YES on question 1. Ballot wins with 67% voter approval
Families for Justice as Healing conducts a community survey and publishes a people’s budget calling for an initial investment of $41 million into a Community Fund to be distributed through a Black-led Participatory Budgeting Process.
#Los levantamientos de BlackLivesMatter crean una demanda masiva de #Definanciación, pero también de reinversión mediante presupuestos participativos.
Grassroots community organizers, researchers, and political leaders form a study group to research various ways of reforming Boston’s City Charter to increase equitable and participatory governance. This study group leads to the publication of “Rewrite the Rules: Democratizing city charters in Boston and beyond” (see Learn More).
Lanzamiento del Proyecto Ujima, que practica la PB de un fondo de inversión comunitario.
As Black Lives Matter protests grew across the country in the 2010s, Boston youth began calling in 2015 to reinvest a $324 million police budget into community needs.
El YLC sigue siendo un programa del Departamento de Participación Juvenil y Empleo, bajo la dirección del Consejo de la Juventud del Alcalde.
Right to the City Boston adoptó el PB como parte de su plataforma política.
La Alianza de Trabajadores de Boston lanzó la campaña "District Dollars" para promover el PB en Boston. Inspirados por la lucha anual para aumentar la financiación de los empleos juveniles, los miembros de BWA buscaron estrategias que permitieran a nuestras comunidades controlar mejor el presupuesto.
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