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Coperthwaite sees his interest in yurts as a natural outgrowth of his desire to develop low-cost housing and his belief that people should learn to work with their hands. "People don't usually get the pleasure of making their own food, clothing, and shelter," he said. "People who are going out to teach kids, especially, should develop their own hand skills so they can encourage the kids," he added...
...understand all this fancy language. Sure I'll go for 'expansion' rather than 'growth.' But I do want to say here that I will support any program, any program at all, no matter what you call it, see, that gives rent-control to the poor and brings in low-cost housing for the people who need it most--just so long as it also sends Harvard and MIT packing across the river. Now if we don't do that, our future generations will be the subjects of that Harvard and they will all owe their allegiance to that royal messiah...
...citizen of Cambridge. Mr. Whitlock's letter noted that 4,400 undergraduates live on campus, and an additional 1,000 in Harvard housing. Where, we ask, do the other 10,000 Harvard students live? The answer, of course, is that many live in Cambridge, competing for what few low-cost housing units are available, and winning the competition because of a greater ability to pay. This, we contend, is the cause of the steadily escalating rents, and it is something for which the institutions of this city must accept primary responsibility...
According to Mr. Pusey Harvard is "trying to alleviate the housing shortage through the Cambridge Corporation." We must point out that the Cambridge Corporation's total contribution to low-cost housing during the 2 1/2 years since it was staffed and ready for operation, is a 2-unit rehabilitation effort, hardly of any significance given the nature of the crisis...
...students want to do anything about this crisis, they can demand that the University build low-cost housing for them in larger amounts, and do so quickly. They can also refuse to compete for what low-cost housing remains...