The needs of our students and their families suffering a high cost of living should be able to crack the Cambridge City Council’s to-do list.

We can be proud of Cambridge’s status as an innovation leader while demanding that more resources go toward those who have been most deeply affected by the city’s recent transformation and by broader systemic racism, classism and ableism.

A resolution about homophobic attacks during the past primary season was defeated Wednesday in a dispiriting process, with participants forced to endure instances of both veiled and overt homophobia mirroring the very criticisms made in the text.