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Shelter Skelter Councilor Quinton Y. Zondervan points out that an end to the pandemic could come with a surge in homelessness, as the eviction moratorium expires. âThereâs going to be a wave of evictions, of people who couldnât afford to pay their rent. Itâs a horrible disaster waiting to happen,â he says. â[It will] disproportionately impact Black and Brown community members . We canât go back to normal,â he adds. âWe have to [do] better, because normal was unjust.â The day before a Cambridge City Council meeting in February, John Chute was preparing his notes. Chute, who is now 40 years old, has lived in Cambridge his whole life. Until June 2020, he was unhoused for about seven years. As he prepared his notes for the meeting, he thought of the many people he knew who didnât have a warm place to stay in the harrowing week ahead. Temperatures had dipped in the single digits days prior, as the Boston area experie ....
In advance of the Cambridge City Council meeting on Monday, a group of housing advocates distributed flyers to more than 1,200 households on Sunday urging residents to give public comment in support of ânon-congregateâ shelters. The Council will vote on Monday on a policy order instructing the city to âinvestigate renting spaceâ from the New England School of English to aid people experiencing homelessness. Project Right to Housing â the event organizers â coordinated the âLit Dropâ Sunday to encourage Cambridge residents to support the policy by attending and speaking in favor of it during the Council meeting. Project Right to Housingâs mission is to support and create awareness about ongoing efforts led by other housing advocacy groups in the city, according to Piper W. Winkler â21. Winkler, one of the groupâs organizers, is also the co-chair of Harvard College Young Democratic Socialists of America. ....