Asked the City Manager to consult with the appropriate City personnel to establish an aggressive outreach program to all property owners, with a view towards purchasing any properties possible and converting these properties into affordable housing

How it started

Sep 18, 2017 · Proposed by Councillor E. Denise Simmons: a formal request from the Council to the administration.

What happened

Sep 18, 2017 · ✅ Order adopted. The Council's request went to the City Manager. (one not recorded)

Present and voting at this meeting (8)

David Maher
Dennis Carlone
E. Denise Simmons
Jan Devereux
Leland Cheung
Marc McGovern
Nadeem Mazen
Timothy J. Toomey

Adopted by voice vote. A voice vote records the outcome, not individual positions. No member's yes or no is on the record (though a member can ask to be recorded in the negative in the minutes). Showing the members who cast recorded votes at this meeting. Rule 6 requires a roll call for spending over $50 or on any member's request; state law requires one for every vote when a member participates remotely. · photos: City of Cambridge

What’s next

⌛ No response on the docket: nothing has been filed back under this request's number (AR 2017 #91 open, 3,259 days). Answers sometimes arrive as other items; this ledger tracks only this one.

Order adoptedSep 18, 2017

Referred for reportAR 2017-91Sep 25, 2017

Awaiting answer⏳ pending3,259 days and counting

The item's path through the council, every recorded step. How the request pipeline works

🏛 This item on the city's site

🗓 The meeting where this was taken up: Sep 18, 2017