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POR 2025-73
Policy Order For Expansion of Municipal Vouchers and Renewal of the Rise Up Program
How it started
May 12, 2025 · Proposed by Councillors Wilson and McGovern, Mayor Siddiqui, and Councillor Sobrinho-Wheeler: a formal request from the Council to the administration. Introduced late, under Rule 36A: added after the agenda was published, so it reached the floor only on a suspension of the rules.
What happenedMay 12, 2025 · ✅ Order adopted as amended, 8–1
May 12, 2025 · Amendment carried Moved by Councillor Patty Nolan; carried 9–0.
POR 2025 #73 by adding the words “including scope and costs” to the second “Ordered” after the word “update”The clerk's words, from the minutes of May 12, 2025, p. 13.
View the roll call on the amendment
Voted yes (9)
Burhan Azeem
Marc McGovern
Patty Nolan
Sumbul Siddiqui
Jivan Sobrinho-Wheeler
Paul F. Toner
Ayesha M. Wilson
Cathie Zusy
E. Denise Simmons
View the roll call
Voted yes (8)
- Burhan Azeem
- Marc McGovern
- Patty Nolan
- Sumbul Siddiqui
- Jivan Sobrinho-Wheeler
- Paul F. Toner
- Ayesha M. Wilson
- E. Denise Simmons
Voted no (1)
- Cathie Zusy
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.
The document Agenda item attachment · 1 page
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ORDERED: That the City Manager be and hereby is requested to allocate at least 25 additional housing vouchers or $1 million, whichever is greater, that would be open to the 20 remaining residents at the Transitional Wellness Center who do not have a permanent housing placement in process and to other shelter residents in Cambridge; and be it further
ORDERED: That the City Manager be and hereby is requested to allocate funding for a successor program to Rise Up Cambridge as soon as possible and provide an update on preparations to the City Council no later than August 2025.