The Cambridge Housing Authority’s four shiny commercial kitchens remained unused for the most part since 2013, but now serve residents daily meals from budding food businesses who need a place to cook.
Cambridge thinks it might have an answer to steep food delivery fees – subsidizing cargo e-bikes for local businesses. But it would leave those businesses to buy and maintain the bikes and find their own delivery people.
A half-fare program for lower-income riders on the struggling MBTA could roll out this spring and summer if approved in a vote set for the end of this month.
It’s been rough going since a plan was unveiled in 2021 for new affordable apartments in North Cambridge, but the latest version has just one more design review stop before it’s time to work out construction funding.
An Appeals Court decision came the same day Cambridge’s City Council asked the city to include money in the next city budget for legal representation for any lower-income tenant threatened with eviction in Housing Court.