Word: presentability
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...problem is of long standing and is becoming increasingly worse due to the inflationary spiral and also forces particularly peculiar to Cambridge. A figure that must be kept constantly in mind in evaluating our present condition is that almost 85% of the housing units in Cambridge are over 40 years...
...about "low-cost" housing, at least in the short range; there simply is no such thing, given the high costs of land, labor, materials and mortgage financing. What we can prouce is housing for for low and moderate income families. The only way we have to do that, at present, is to build housing whose cost to those who live in it can be reduced with public money to a level consistent with their ability to pay. That solution, obviously, cannot be implemented by any city alone. Public money in adequate amounts to reduce the cost of land and operating...
...City Council has had before it in recent weeks a rent control ordinance proposed by the Cambridge Housing Convention. I am certain that the City Council will weigh and evaluate the proposal before it in the light of the present housing crisis and the need to control the unreasonable and excessive rises in rents...
...housing stock, particularly in the critical low rent brackets. We don't want any of our citizens living in unsafe or unhealthy housing, but to force a family out of housing units because there are no screens, or because lighting is inadequate seems absurd in the context of our present crisis...
...present, the committee is not organizing at Harvard, but it plans to do so soon...