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...recent months, much public debate in Cambridge' has centered around the City's "housing crisis," primarily about the shortage of housing for low-income families. Here is the text of a speech which City Manager James L. Sullivan delivered to a City Council hearing on housing last week...
...here tonight to state as a matter of public policy that the housing crisis is not simply an unfortunate but predictable result of 'the law of supply and demand" or "an economic fact of life." We cannot be satisfied merely to remark that the lack of adequate housing at reasonable prices is a natural consequence of the fact that more people want to live in Cambridge than the number of units available can absorb. New construction to expand the supply of housing is a need for the highest priority, but not simply so that more people can live here...
...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 expenses simply is not in our hands at the municipal level of government. It can--and must...
POINTING A FINGER of responsibility at the Federal and State governments, however, does not excuse us from using the tools we now have. The programs administered by the Cambridge Housing Authority are the means by which the public sector can most directly prove that it has answers to the problem, and we have fallen intolerably short of providing that proof. As of today, we have used only about 200 of the 1500 new units allocated to the Authority by the Federal Government. The Modernization Program for Public Housing, approved only this month, took seven full months to make...
...Authority must respond promptly and positively to proposals put before them. We have not yet been able to meet the housing must go beyond that difficult task to the even more challenging problem of housing for low-income large families. Failure to do that has been a weakness of public housing programs in city after city, but we cannot let it be here...