Checking success of Affordable Housing Overlay, councillors wonder at walkaways and rejections
The first report on the effects of the Affordable Housing Overlay raised many questions, but councillors decided to keep wondering until they could hold a comprehensive hearing.
Attend meetings on a city-run shuttle bus idea, Brattle Street bike lanes and preserving The Pit
Public meetings this week look at monkeypox preparedness, a proposal for city-run delivery services making up for MBTA failings with shuttle buses, Brattle Street bike lanes, preserving The Pit and more.
Inclusionary housing rent calculations are unfair
Many part-time and seasonal workers are being unfairly rejected or charged more than 30 percent gross income for inclusionary housing. All we ask is to pay what we make, not what city workers think we will.
Attend meetings on Starlight Square’s future, developer ‘linkage’ fees, better parks and more
Public meetings this week look at better parks and open spaces and citywide design guidelines, developer “linkage” fees for affordable housing, permitting for Starlight Square and more.
Attend meetings on Greene Street pot for Porter, Bom Dough for Inman and changes in Kendall
Public meetings this week look at a cannabis shop proposal near Porter Square, Kendall Square improvements and affordable housing, and a fast-casual restaurant called Bom Dough coming to Inman Square.
Attend meetings on acting city manager term, remaking CHA-owned housing at 116 Norfolk
Public meetings this week look at pinning down a contract for the acting city manager, Owen O’Riordan, and the reconfiguration of a Cambridge Housing Authority building in The Port into 62 studio apartments from 37 single-room-occupancy units.
Drug use and violence among a plaza’s unhoused infiltrates Manning public housing, residents say
Some residents of Manning Apartments, a public housing complex near Central Square for seniors and people with disabilities, say they feel unsafe amid a spike in illegal activity in and around the building – and an official at the Cambridge House Authority said Friday that an attempt to address the problem better with private security has suffered a setback.
Unhoused Advocacy Group proposed solutions almost a year ago, urges action with Covid funds
As a coalition of organizations that work directly with the unhoused, we want more investment in housing and health care including using federal Covid aid funds to create easy to access housing with staffing. Our proposal lays out a pathway to ensure that these units are sustainable beyond the initial funding.
Just A Start leader and son to ride cross-country fundraising for Rindge Commons programming
The head of affordable housing developer Just a Start and his 18-year-old son will ride bicycles across the country in a fundraiser for Just a Start’s Rindge Commons project and two organizations targeting homelessness.
Heard at the hearings: Need for affordable homes dominates, but pre-K and trees share budget talk
Affordable housing took center stage at budget hearings Tuesday, with city councillors hoping to increase lower-income homeownership and worrying about even maintaining the status quo amid a change in leadership.
