This petition will change zoning for single- and two-family homes without escalating housing costs or property values or destroying the city’s rich array of sustainable historic housing, adding units while preventing the tearing down of existing stock to build larger, more expensive housing.

Public meetings this week look at a cannabis head start extension, forming a racial justice committee, security deposit reform, tree infrastructure; using school district relief funds and hiring a School Committee executive secretary; and recreational pot near Fresh Pond.

With evictions expected to swell, Cambridge tenants still have state and local protections to help them stay in their homes during a pandemic – yet one recent case shows how an eviction can take place without that help ever playing a role.

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.

Public meetings this week look at a school district vaccine mandate; condominium conversion law; landmarkings; and a number of long-simmering projects that could add residences in Harvard Square, Wellington-Harrington and Central Square and hotels in Kendall and Central squares.

The affordable housing project at 2072 Massachusetts Ave., North Cambridge, was withdrawn by developers Friday in a letter to the Board of Zoning Appeal, but one said they remain “100 percent committed to building an affordable housing project on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

No matter how long you or your family has lived in Cambridge, we were all new once, and Cambridge has the ability and the obligation to care for longtime lower-income residents as well as those seeking to move here.

Cambridge’s tale of two cities is widely documented. But it has failed to make any meaningful effort at racial equity, and that has to change.

Big increases in the number of people of color living in Cambridge, particularly Asians, fueled a sharp rise in the city’s population between 2010 and 2020, according to U.S. Census figures announced Aug. 12. The total population increased by 13,241, or 12.6 percent, to 118,403.

Public meetings this week look at a potentially returned ManRay nightclub seeking a liquor license, and maybe more Harvard Square ramen; some legislative overkill in crafting zoning so one dog can recuperate at someone’s home; and the loss of the famous Mayflower Poultry.