Word: marketed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...must point out that we do not simply have a housing problem in this city. We have a markedly abnormal real estate market, influenced by forces unique to Cambridge...
...must point out that we do not simply have a housing problem in this city. We have a markedly abnormal real estate market, influenced by forces unique to Cambridge. We have intense pressure on existing housing, and inflation in the price of it. We have a relatively inactive new construction market, in spite of intense demand. Part of the reason for this is that Cambridge is already a densely developed city, Scarcity and cost of land on which to expand the supply of housing is a constant barrier. We have families forced to leave Cambridge, or to tolerate poor housing...
...need for the highest priority, but not simply so that more people can live here. We must protect the ability of long-term residents of Cambridge to stay here. What we must do, as a matter of public responsibility, is to insure that housing is produced that the private market will not produce under any circumstances--housing for the elderly on small, fixed incomes, for large families and families with limited incomes who cannot pay the price the market must charge. But as I have noted, there is a limit to the amount of new construction that land in Cambridge...
...only part of the job will be done. The two universities which have done so much to make Cambridge what it is--both good and bad--have a special responsibility. It is futile to argue much longer about how much or which parts of the pressures on the housing market are generated by students, faculty, staff and spin-off activities traceable to Harvard and MIT. The point is not whether the response of the universities will be proportional to the degree to which they are responsible for the problem. The question is whether they will do all they...
FIRST, THEY must build more housing for their students and faculty because the available housing simply cannot absorb them, and because the students themselves cannot really be served the housing market they find in Cambridge. When they do enter it, they are forced to accept housing conditions fully as bad as those experienced by other residents. This is equally true of single or married graduate students and younger faculty or staff members, who often live on genuinely moderate incomes...