Millers River is one of the most dilapidated public housing developments in Cambridge, but scheduled for a $104 million renovation funded by turning it into a condominium property – on paper – and a possible deal for a 10-foot-wide strip of land by a railway.

New data paint a mixed picture of Cambridge as a desirable place for low-income children to grow up, and children brought up in Cambridge, like most other American kids, don’t have a lot of economic mobility.

The Cambridge Housing Authority has once again attracted two of the largest banks in the country to invest in housing for very low income tenants in Cambridge. This time, though, one of the investors has admitted it is under investigation for deception in the same kind of transaction.

The Cambridge Housing Authority got most of the zoning relief it sought to modernize its Millers River development, but other risks remain for the 300-unit project for low-income elderly and younger disabled tenants, including higher-than-expected costs for a new community center.

The Cambridge Housing Authority was the victim of a “phishing” attack in which the agency wired more than $7,000 to an imposter claiming to need bill payment; but that pales next to the $1.5 million taken from a Kendall Square company in a 2016 scam.

The federal budget approved by President Donald Trump on March 23 surprised and elated officials at the Cambridge Housing Authority. But it won’t solve all of the problems that have delayed and threatened the second phase of the city’s public housing rehabilitation.

Cambridge Housing Authority planners have come up with several possible ways to add to the city’s shrinking supply of affordable housing, while grappling with roadblocks to completing the second phase of its plan to modernize an existing 2,138 public housing units.

The smoking ban imposed on public housing tenants in 2014 has “substantial gaps” in implementation, and officials will propose changes this summer, potentially with managers paying more attention to helping smokers comply with limitations rather than quit.

The tax bill approved by Congress on Wednesday preserves a crucial funding source for low-income housing, bringing relief to officials at the Cambridge Housing Authority, where the rehabilitation of hundreds of deteriorating public housing units was at risk.

The Cambridge Housing Authority is planning a campaign to raise $3 million from private donors to support the services it provides to residents to to help bring the people who live in its apartments out of poverty.