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Editor's note: In Monday's City Council meeting, Cambridge's ad hoc committee on the CASPAR shelter announced a proposal that MIT promised to accept: The university would agree to lease three of the four streets it demanded to own, if the city would give MIT the fourth to keep. Next week, the Council will meet to discuss this proposal...
When MIT proposed a deal with the city earlier this month, offering the CASPAR homeless shelter a piece of university land, we were a little suspicious. MIT has fought for more than five months to get the shelter off their property and recent weeks have seen MIT brazenly attempting to spin some good PR out of their selfish proposal. It turns out that we, and the rest of the city, had good reason to worry...
...offer did seem generous: MIT would renovate the shelter, which now consists on university property, at a price of $1.5 million. The shelter now consists of two dilapidated trailers, which fill to capacity almost every night. MIT would give the shelter to the city for 40 years, and the city would lease it to CASPAR for a dollar a year. In return--and this is the catch--MIT would receive four city-owned streets near its campus. Permanently...
...originally wanted to move the shelter off its property and into Central Square, a poorer neighborhood which has just started to recover from a two-decade slump. When residents learned that the university wanted to move the "wet" shelter--so called because it does not require residents to seek rehabilitation--from the isolated spot near MIT into their neighborhood, they got upset. And rightly so--wet shelters, when placed in a residential neighborhood, cause problems. Residents of these shelters often spend their days not in rehab but on the streets...
...televisions, soft lighting and an operating room for emergency surgery. Clinton put on the blue serge flight jacket with the presidential seal and settled in to work the phones. "It's a lot better than Air Elvis," he remarked, a reference to his campaign plane, which resembled a homeless shelter. It is better, and if he's not careful, he will get used...