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...It’s easy to diagnose a problem, but it is much harder to work on the problem,” Maher says...
...Maher, who founded and chaired the City Council’s University Relations committee, says the universities can serve as a resource to help the city address pressing issues...
...Still, Maher says that Harvard and MIT could be doing more. The universities are exempt from a law that requires large housing developments to reserve some of the housing for low-income residents. Given “the wealth of the universities,” Maher says, they could be following that rule like private developers...
...universities are also key to Maher’s emphasis on improving the school system. Maher, a former member of the Cambridge School Committee, argues that boosting public education in the city should be a top concern for Harvard as well as the wider community...
...Maher says that boosting the city’s investment in the school system will be key to heading off an “exodus” of students from Cambridge public schools. But he also insisted that the city needed to do a better job in showing the progress already being made...