HISTORY

Timeline of Budget Justice Organizing in Boston

2026

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

2025

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.

2024

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.

2023

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.

2022

设计PB程序和编写市政条例。

2021

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

2020

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.

#BlackLivesMatter的起义创造了大众对#D资金的需求，但也通过参与式预算进行再投资。

2018-2019

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).

2016

Ujima项目项目启动，实践社区投资基金的PB。

2015

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.

2014年--现在

YLC继续作为青年参与和就业部的一个项目，由市长的青年委员会领导。

2013 - 2014

在参与式预算项目和经济民主中心的技术援助下，成立了 "青年引领变革"，指导委员会由城市学校和波士顿学生咨询委员会共同担任主席。

2013

梅尼诺市长作为即将离任的市长的临别行动之一，从波士顿的资本预算中拨出$1万美元用于青年的参与式预算编制过程。

2013

市议员蒂托-杰克逊在市议会举行了关于PB的第一次公开听证会。

2010

波士顿 "城市权利 "组织将PB作为其政策平台的一部分。

2010

波士顿工人联盟发起了 "地区美元 "运动，以促进波士顿的PB。受到每年为增加青年就业资金而进行的斗争的启发，波士顿工人联盟成员寻求使我们的社区能够更好地控制预算的策略。