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Cambridge's only Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) will sell off about half of the space it has occupied for the past 92 years next month and plans to redevelop the remainder in an attempt to provide better subsidized housing and recreational facilities for the Central Square neighborhood...
Although a developer has not yet been selected and a decision has not been reached on whether to tear down the present structure, the YMCA intends to construct a building that will allow the organization to expand its community services, said Richard Foot, executive vice-president of the Cambridge YMCA...
Foot said his group was forced to renovate its current facilities because it no longer complies with safety and sanitary codes. As a result, the YMCA may have to reduce the number of spaces in its lodging program from 138 to a token number...
Panelist Donna Townsend, who runs a YMCA shelter for both homeless individuals and families, said that at least a third of the area's homeless are not "housing-ready"--that is, they cannot find housing, maintain an apartment or raise children on their own. Another third, she said, "needs some guidance" in order to live independently. She said the hypothetical housing project should provide for free classes on housekeeping, reading and child care...
ISHMAEL SCOTT REED WAS BORN in Chattanooga, Tennessee on February 22, 1938, to Henry Lenoir, a fundraiser for the YMCA and Thelma Coleman, a homemaker and sales clerk. Later, his mother married Bennie Reed, an auto worker. In 1942, Reed moved with his mother to Buffalo, New York, where his mother worked in various wartime industries. As a teenager, he half-heartedly attended Buffalo public schools, he wrote a jazz column for a local newspaper in his spare time...