Asked the City Manager to confer with the Community Development Department, the Law Department, and the City Manager’s Housing Liaison to discuss and advise on ways to increase equity in the initial application process for tenants looking to rent in Cambridge that does not violate fair housing laws

How it started

Apr 12, 2021 · Proposed by Mayor Siddiqui, Councillors Simmons and Sobrinho-Wheeler, and Vice Mayor Mallon: a formal request from the Council to the administration.

What happened

Apr 12, 2021 · ✅ Order adopted as amended. The Council's request went to the City Manager. (unanimous)

Voted yes (9), unanimous

Dennis Carlone
Patty Nolan
Jivan Sobrinho-Wheeler
Alanna Mallon
Marc McGovern
Sumbul Siddiqui
E. Denise Simmons
Timothy J. Toomey
Quinton Zondervan

Roll call of Apr 12, 2021 · from the council’s minutes · photos: City of Cambridge

What’s next

⌛ No response on the docket: nothing has been filed back under this request's number. Answers sometimes arrive as other items; this ledger tracks only this one.

🏛 This item on the city's site

🗓 The meeting where this was taken up: Apr 12, 2021

Public Comment (1)

1 written comment received (2021-04-12). Letter-writers are named in the city's own agenda and are not republished here, by policy.