Word: cra
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...December of 1957, when the Council unanimously approved of applying for Federal renewal money, it created the Cambridge Redevelopment Authority (CRA). The CRA was to plan and administer redevelopment in Cambridge. Until last Thursday, when the Federal Housing and Homes Agency closed the CRA's books, the Authority consisted of a committee of five Cambridge businessmen and lawyers, serving without pay, and a paid staff of five architects and planners...
...CRA's plans to refurbish Donnelly centered around 142 moderate income, non-profit apartment units which were to be built by the AFL-CIO. The projected rents of these units were well within the budget of the people then living in the area. Plans also called for 21,000 feet of new water mains, 16,000 feet of new sewer lines, 3,000,000 square feet of pavement and sidewalks, and two new playgrounds. At its completion, the project was to displace 337 families (15% of the Donnelly population...
...according to the CRA plans, those living in the even acres to be bulldozed could find immediate revocation in one of the new units, since the first of the three story buildings of the project were scheduled to be put up on an empty lot. Donnelly has no large Negro population. Thus the project was free of the sometimes ticklish problem of relocating Negro families in government housing. Moreover, a new $2,500,000 school already built in Donnelly Field made up the City's one third of the renewal costs; under the 1954 housing act, the FHHA share...