Better Budget Alliance

The city of Boston will direct funding from its budget toward efforts to expand access to fresh food, implement rat prevention measures, and offer rental assistance for Boston youth, among six total priorities selected through residents voting in the city’s inaugural participatory budgeting cycle.

Following the lead of neighbors Somerville and Cambridge, Boston is taking on a new initiative that allows the public to decide how the city spends a portion of its 2025 budget.

Are you a Boston resident with ideas to improve your community? What would you do with $2 million dollars to help our most vulnerable neighbors?