First city housing vouchers are approved for unhoused residents and mixed-status families
The Cambridge Housing Justice Coalition believes our city should prioritize meeting the housing needs of low-income and moderate-income residents. We look to solutions that best provide affordable housing to these populations. Over the past two years, we have fought for city-funded housing vouchers to support Cambridge’s most vulnerable residents.
On June 2, we succeeded. The City Council and city manager agreed to a $6 million voucher program to house 42 mixed immigration-status households, 25 shelter residents and 128 formerly unhoused residents. This is the start of a municipal voucher program that we hope will be expanded in subsequent years to stably house more at-risk households in various forms of housing, including inclusionary housing…