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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...
...CHA also recently completed renovations on the Roosevelt Towers project in East Cambridge and the River Howard project in Riverside...
Approximately 10,000 people live in the 3,000 units directly owned and managed by the CHA. Putnam said. The CHA also subsidizes rents in an additional 800 units in privately owned buildings...
...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...