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Meanwhile, in the last ten years, blue-collar industries have moved out of the city, resulting in a sharp rise in unemployment for unskilled and semi-skilled workers. Lacking jobs and facing rising rents, these people have had to move out of Cambridge or into substandard housing within the city...
...time of their selection, neighborhoods three and four had the worst conditions of any area in the city. Twenty seven per cent of the housing units had been declared substandard. Eighty per cent of those neighborhood residents who earned less than $6,000 paid more than the federally-stipulated maximum per cent of their incomes on rent. The area had the highest rates of unemployment and juvenile delinquency in Cambridge...
...Center, one of only three licensed clinics in the country run by local citizens, serves as a model of innovative citizen participation. Model Cities Child Care has aided over a hundred community mothers. Homeowners Rehab In., a 'sub-contractor' that secures low interest loans to improve the condition of substandard houses, continues to grow...
...arrive in this country from the Azores are unskilled and shackled by the language problem, they are forced into low-paying jobs and subjected to exploitation. Anxious to make a fresh start, and ignorant of their rights under labour laws, the Portuguese are willing to work long hours for substandard wages...
Landlords frequently argue that rent control leads to substandard housing. If rent control were only repealed, they say, landlords would have more money to invest in their buildings, and housing conditions would obviously improve...