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Margaret Fuller House project wins approval, with a food pantry upgrade and housing replacing a parking lot
A restoration at the Margaret Fuller House in The Port neighborhood of Cambridge will relocate a food pantry out of the basement and add community meeting space. (Photo: Marc Levy)
An Essential Housing Tool Is Hiding in Plain Sight: Massachusetts’ Redevelopment Authorities
Massachusetts’ housing prices are stifling economic growth. The workers that power its healthcare, research and technology industries are leaving the state.
Cambridge’s first social housing project may already be identified, and a task force hasn’t even met
A development planned for 2400 Massachusetts Ave., North Cambridge, could be the city’s first social housing. (Photo: Marc Levy)
Social housing in Cambridge leaped forward this week as the city manager created a task force and, maybe, just maybe, summoned the city’s first social housing project into being.
Cambridge Redevelopment Authority makes real estate moves in North and East Cambridge
A 2024 design for 2400 Massachusetts Ave. was popular with neighbors and Planning Board members. (Image: North Cambridge Partners)
The most prominent builder in North Cambridge may now be the quasi-governmental agency the Cambridge Redevelopment Authority.
A New Mandate: Redevelopment Authorities and Social Housing in Massachusetts
Photo: Central Square, Cambridge, MA, 2025. Credit: Tom Evans.