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THIS REPORT to you this evening is presented as an interim report of progress by the City Manager for the purpose of placing into perspective the Housing Problem in the City and the action being undertaken by the City Managers Task Force on Housing in an attempt to define and overcome the obstacles to providing decent reasonable lousing for the citizens of Cambridge...
...even the amended version of the bill was bottled up in committee last Tuesday. It certainly did not make the rapid progress which many college administrators, including President Pusey, feared any anti-student bill would make this year...
TONIGHT we have placed a wide range of facts about the housing situation in Cambridge before you and I have touched on my feelings about progress we can make in a number of areas related to housing. Much of this has come from the work of the Task Force on the Housing Crisis which I called together in early April. A special committee of that Task Force is now at work developing a specific implementation plan for the 1500 units of various types of publicly subsidized housing now allocated to the City, and in planning for new applications for more...
Among the things which have become clear to us in the past months of intense work on the housing problem is the need for strengthening the Citys entire housing development and maintenance capacity. The Ford Foundation funded study, still in progress, is pointing toward assembling all housing-related functions is one agency responsible to the City Manager. I believe this is a good direction to move in, and if the report is adopted I will recommend its implementation as soon as possible...
This lack of White House support has undoubtedly helped to slow the progress of strong anti-university bills, but it might not have been as effective were it not for the fact that college administrators themselves--in their testimony before Congress as well as in their actions this spring--have been trying to assure Congress that colleges have no intention of allowing disruptions of their operations...