Campaigners for City Council should consider these ideas to address the root cause of our ever-continuing displacement; establish a kind of municipal broadband; create housing for city employees; and more.

The affordable housing project at 2072 Massachusetts Ave., North Cambridge, was withdrawn by developers Friday in a letter to the Board of Zoning Appeal, but one said they remain “100 percent committed to building an affordable housing project on that site.”

The Affordable Housing Overlay made some residents think more seriously about housing affordability, and it made Cambridge itself begin to address this issue citywide. Finding examples of development that meet the AHO’s stated goals is harder to do.

Clear-cut successes are uncommon in public policy. For a policy to go from idea to debate to passage to implementation, making concrete positive impacts on people’s lives in the span of a few years, is exceptional.

Just A Start, a Cambridge nonprofit, has updated its brand with a new website, logo and tagline – “Building homes, careers and futures” – with the help of teen artists and designers at the Artists For Humanity studio.

The City Council unanimously have approved an order asking the city manager to report by Sept. 13 on “how the city is getting city and public school staff to 100 percent vaccinated.”

The Cambridge Housing Authority is “strongly considering” requiring employees to be vaccinated against Covid-19 when it reopens offices fully, and Cambridge’s hospitals are looking at requirements as well.

Cambridge’s public housing agency has published the photos and stories of dozens of applicants for units in an effort to “put a face and voice” to staggering numbers, with political ramifications for a law affecting the environment and development citywide.

Public meetings this week look at reparations through cannabis revenue, name changes to the Agassiz neighborhood and Central Square branch library, police surveillance technology that worries civil libertarians, aging elementary schools, tree tear-downs and much more.

The Central Square branch of the Cambridge Public Library was approved Monday for a study of its space needs, but city councillors say staff needs to think bigger – such asbuilding a tower of public housing with the library on its lower floors. Maybe even expanding to the neighboring parking garage.