The Cambridge Housing Authority wants to buy a house now used as a Lesley dorm in a neighborhood with little low- and moderate-income housing.

The process of converting an outsider artist’s home into affordable housing begins this month with a community meeting, and a famous fence is coming down too.

A housing crisis of this magnitude requires a number of bold policy ideas. It also requires us to work together as communities to support people in need of housing.

A study of making it harder to do a “down conversion” – making fewer homes out of more homes – survived a Cambridge City Council vote easily despite staff suggesting it was less welcome than one looking to build multifamily housing citywide.

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.

Let’s allow the Affordable Housing Trust to fund rental vouchers, fund new programs to house the unhoused and give those who have experienced housing instability a seat at the table.

if Winn thinks that green-lighting affordable housing projects with 100-plus units in our fair city is an onerous process, try living at Walden Square Road in the coming years.

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.

Public meetings this week look at solar panels and a farm at CRLS; plans for affordable homes called Walden Square II; what Massachusetts Avenue will look like in 2040; and a Van Leeuwen ice cream for Harvard Square and expanded hours at La Saison Bakery near Alewife.

Public meetings this week look at how aging affects driving skills, an affordable-Internet program’s end and a recreational pot shop proposed for Davis Square.