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Virtually everyone admits that Cambridge has a housing problem, and some, perhaps a majority of the citizens, term it a crisis. There is little data indicting the extent of the problem, of its impact on various groups in the City. A rent survey based on news, newspaper ads, and a poll of 2000 senior citizens show that rents have risen sharply in recent years, and that many elderly persons are paying much of their income for rent. To social scientists, the data might seem inadequate, but for purposes of public policy-making, it seems safe to assume that a housing...
...task force has already held two meetings and Sullivan asked it to try and come up with a comprehensive two-year housing plan by September 1. "Sites for construction of low rent housing will be the primary subject of the task force," Sullivan said. "Unless we can formulate a decision at the staff level we can't really go and present the public with any kind of plan," he added...
Sullivan's announcement came during a City Council meeting last night at which members of several city agencies concerned with housing exchanged charges and insults over possible sites for low cost housing. Controversy centered over planning of the Wellington-Harrington housing project, designed to build 56 low-rent housing units on the site of the old Wellington School...
...Chiapas Project has come a long way since that first season in 1957. Although all the students rent rooms in San Cristobal, they alternate their time there with stays of a few days to several weeks in Indian villages. Each has his own project, with seminars and meetings during the summer to coordinate field work, provide supervision and synthesize some of the results. Students live with native families when they are in the field, improving the Tzotzil they studied back in Cambridge and working in either Tzotzil or Spanish (many of the men speak at least some Spanish; almost none...
...slight budget surplus-much the same policies that Lyndon Johnson pursued in his last days as President. Nixon will undoubtedly try to dispel the common belief that Republicans are irrevocably probusiness, especially since his overriding domestic goal is to "bring together" a nation that is already rent by too many divisions...