Elders came together with anti displacement organizers to defend an affordable housing proposal
SENIORS PROTEST TURTLE SWAMP BREWING OVER LANDLORD’S LAWSUIT AGAINST LOW-INCOME HOUSING
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COUNTERPOINT: PROGRESSIVES AGAINST PROGRESS
Why is Cambridge afraid of affordable housing?
When Cambridge city staff decided to use the city’s zoning code to incentivize the creation of affordable housing, they faced a choice. They could, like generations of planners before them, trace old zoning and neighborhood boundaries, but those boundaries ...
POINT: YES TO AFFORDABLE HOUSING; NO TO THE CITYWIDE OVERLAY
Cambridge is embroiled in a heated debate over the 100% Affordable Housing Overlay (AHO)—a city-wide up-zoning plan to allow large housing developments citywide, four stories (45’) tall in all residential areas and seven stories (80’) tall on major corridors.
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TOWNIE: CORPORATE TAX FABLES AND COMMUNITARIAN KIDDIE TABLES
Big local corps quiet about huge profits to come from Repub tax scheme… except GE
An interesting WBUR article, “Largest Mass. Companies ...
REAL RIDESHARING
Evolving the way the world moves … beyond Uber (and Lyft)
BAB COMPANY: MARIO BATALI BREACHES BOSTON
“We wanted to be a humble pizzeria that anyone—a college student to someone buying vintage [bottles of] Barolo—can afford.”
LOYAL SERVICE: “COLONIAL-INSPIRED” LOYAL NINE HAS FINALLY ARRIVED TO EAST CAMBRIDGE
"I want people to come here for a special occasion, or twice a week if they want to.”
