Assistant City Manager for Community Development be and hereby is requested to inform the Ordinance Committee on whether or not it is the case that the rate of rents being charged in the buildings located in the City squares is primarily driven by those who can pay the highest rent amounts

How it started

Jan 9, 2023 · Proposed by Councillor E. Denise Simmons: a formal request from the Council to the administration.

What happened

Jan 9, 2023 · ✅ Order adopted. The Council's request went to the City Manager. (unanimous)

Voted yes (9), unanimous

Burhan Azeem
Dennis Carlone
Alanna Mallon
Marc McGovern
Patty Nolan
E. Denise Simmons
Paul F. Toner
Quinton Zondervan
Sumbul Siddiqui

Roll call of Jan 9, 2023 · 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: Jan 9, 2023

Public Comment (3)

3 written comments received (2023-01-23 – 2023-10-16). Letter-writers are named in the city's own agenda and are not republished here, by policy.