Word: chaing
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Describing Cambridge's current circumstance as a public housing emergency. Daniel Wuenschel, executive director of the Cambridge Housing Authority (CHA), said that it is impossible to predict how many new homes the city will be able to provide in the next five years because of substantial cuts in federal assistance under the Reagan Administration...
According to Weaponchel, 395 families and 421 elderly citizens are currently on CHA waiting lists. In addition, 498 tenants who have qualified for special, subsidized housing are looking for apartments in the city, and another group is being considered for units in the recently renovated Roosevelt Towers housing project...
...CHA currently has 20 to 25 vacant and habitable family homes and "almost zero" elderly units, Waenchel said. units. Wuenschel said...
...federal government supplies 65 percent of the CHA's funding, with the state adding the remaining 35 percent. Both state and federal laws impose eligibility guidelines on the CHA...
Putnam says the CHA is looking to acquire additional housing units. He says prices for housing "in the ring around Harvard" are too high, but in areas where public housing already exists--primarily North and East Cambridge--there are still affordable units...