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...backyard." Many citzens in richer neighborhoods criticized the Central Square residents as alcoholic-hating villians--an absurb portrayal of a neighborhood which already hosts ten times as many social programs as any other part of the city. Central Square residents simply didn't want a wet shelter built next door to their homes. They suggested that MIT could find a better solution. MIT said nothing. Instead, cloaking its selfishness in the rhetoric of good will, the university decided to let Cambridge residents take the blame for the university's insensitivity...
...impossible to say whether this new deal is equitable monetarily. MIT would spend $1.5 million to build a new shelter for CASPAR, in exchange for the four streets. No one knows exactly how much the streets are worth; MIT's claim that they can't be worth more than the $1.5 they're willing to spend is a little suspicious. Independent estimates have set the price closer to $2 million...
...even if the streets were worthless, MIT's "generous" offer still has plenty of strings attached. MIT can kick the shelter off its property in 40 years if it wants to--and still own the Cambridge streets for all eternity. Judging from its treatment of the issue over the past few years, the shelter shouldn't count on MIT's civic concern. The City Council recognized that this was ludicrous and offered to lease the streets to MIT instead. MIT has refused, and tomorrow city officials and the university will meet to hammer out a final deal...
...city must demand a permanent commitment to the shelter if MIT is to receive the streets permanently. If MIT won't, then leasing is the only fair deal. MIT works on a giant time scale--they can wait 40 years if they have to. CASPAR, and the people it serves, desperately needs a solution now. The city should not be blackmailed by MIT into selling out the shelter...
...city's negotiating committee agreed to sell Amherst street to MIT and lease Hayward, Carleton and Vassar Streets to the school. In return, MIT would construct a facility for the shelter, currently in temporary quarters, and lease it to the Cambridge and Somerville Program for Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Rehabilitation for 40 years, Councillor Jonathan S. Myers said Monday...