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Basement apartment district passes 7-2
By Marc Levy
Published: December 21, 2011 at 02:22 AM
A plan for basement apartments passed 7-2 at Monday’s meeting of the City Council, despite councillors having a week to think it over since passing it 6-2 and a new round of comments from residents who are opposed.
Budget crisis pushes housing authority toward privatization
By Sue Reinert
Published: December 20, 2011 at 07:30 PM
Facing unprecedented cuts in federal aid that supports Cambridge public housing, the Cambridge Housing Authority is proposing a radical solution: privatization.
Transfers give glimpse of future for more public housing
By Sue Reinert
Published: December 20, 2011 at 07:08 PM
The Cambridge Housing Authority has transferred four of its developments to private ownership, giving hints of how a bigger strategy of ownership transfers might work.
For New Year’s Day, ImprovBoston has ’100 First Jokes’
By Marc Levy
Published: December 19, 2011 at 11:45 AM
As the world waits for all of the firsts of 2012, the ImprovBoston theater in Central Square plans to kick off the year with two Jan. 1 shows at which 100 comics will tell their first jokes of the year.
Q&A: From grocery store to Constellation Center, Travis McCready talks future of Kendall Square
By Marc Levy
Published: December 15, 2011 at 09:31 PM
The Kendall Square Association’s executive director is confident about the square, as well as about how many residents the square needs, how big a grocery store that calls for and that the Constellation Center will be great — whenever it arrives.
Central Square can take 1,000 new homes, commission says
By Marc Levy
Published: December 14, 2011 at 06:27 PM
Along with the rest of an exciting, arts-based vision for Central Square described Monday came a call for 1,000 units of housing to be built atop what are now parking lots or one- or two-story buildings.
Basement units pass 6-2, pause a week for ‘reconsideration’
By Marc Levy
Published: December 13, 2011 at 08:07 PM
A test basement apartment program is almost, but not quite, in place for 13 buildings in Cambridge, having been stalled for a week in a parliamentary maneuver called “reconsideration.”
Ex-cop kills self after shooting three, station says
By Marc Levy
Published: December 9, 2011 at 10:17 PM
Police are searching for John “Jack” Brosnahan, 67, a former Bedford police officer, as a suspect in the fatal shootings of three family members fatally shot “as a result of a domestic altercation,” police said.
Basement apartment vote arrives with suspicion over campaign money
By Marc Levy
Published: December 9, 2011 at 08:36 PM
A vote on whether Cambridge gets basement apartments comes Monday, accompanied by suspicions over campaign contributions and a request for councillors to recuse themselves.
Vision for Central Square to be unveiled Monday
By Marc Levy
Published: December 9, 2011 at 12:42 PM
The Mayor’s Red Ribbon Commission on the Delights and Concerns of Central Square gets its unveiling Monday, with a call for middle-class housing, a center for the arts and a hall hosting local food and products.