Laurel Shugart
@laurelmshugart
@thecrimson housing and affordability ✍️ | harvard ‘27 💌 | they/them
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05-12-2023 15:01:22
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The Cambridge City Council narrowly approved a proposal to delay a construction deadline for Cambridge’s bike lane network, over the objections of nearly 300 Cambridge residents who urged the Council to reject the policy order.
Ayumi Nagatomi reports.
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Roughly 30 Progressive Labor Party protesters marched down Massachusetts Avenue and spoke with encampment protesters at Harvard Yard’s Johnston Gate on Saturday afternoon.
Azusa Mizuta Lippit, Laurel Shugart, and Sheerea Yu report.
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More than 50 Cambridge residents rallied outside of Johnston Gate on Sunday afternoon in a rally organized by the Cambridge Residents Alliance in solidarity with a pro-Palestine Harvard Yard encampment.
@azusalippit and Laurel Shugart report.
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State legislators voted Thursday to pass a bill imposing a nine-month limit on families staying in state-run Emergency Assistance Shelters effective June 1.
Laurel Shugart reports.
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‘We Didn’t Always Have A Housing Crisis’: Siddiqui, Sobrinho-Wheeler, McGovern Talk Housing at Town Hall. Read more 📰⬇️
🖊️ for The Harvard Crimson
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The state’s Emergency Assistance program, which serves unhoused families who fall under the right to shelter law, is facing policy changes to mitigate financial burden while meeting growing need. Read more below ⬇️ 📰
🖊️ for The Harvard Crimson
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Dr. Margot Kushel — leader of the largest representative homelessness study since the mid 1990s — gave the 23rd Annual John T. Dunlop Lecture at the Joint Center for Housing Studies last week. Read more below 🗞️🗞️
🖊️ w/ Olivia W. Zheng for The Harvard Crimson
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Margot B. Kushel ’89, a professor of medicine at the University of California San Francisco, gave the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies’ 23rd John T. Dunlop Lecture on Thursday.
Laurel Shugart and Olivia W. Zheng report.
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BIG: A Harvard Hillel debate between Harvard Economics professors Jason Furman and David Laibson descended into a circus as they weighed whether hamentaschen or latkes are the superior Jewish holiday food.
A critical report in The Harvard Crimson.
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📰 City Council Puts Ending Single-Family Zoning Back on the Table
🖊️ w/Olivia W. Zheng for The Harvard Crimson
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After the Alewife Quadrangle was rezoned last year, opportunity for housing development is on the rise. What comes next for Alewife? Read to find out 🗞️ 🗞️
🖊️ for The Harvard Crimson
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Central Square Lots Study became a source of contention at the City Council meeting last night, particularly following the announcement of Starlight Square closure hours earlier.
Read more The Harvard Crimson
w/ Avani B. Rai
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A group of UCLA students scraped Datamatch profile data and made crude remarks about students' profiles in a private Discord server — a transcript of which was obtained by The Harvard Crimson.
More w/ Jo Lemann in The Harvard Crimson:
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Last night, the Cambridge City Council discussed legal representation for tenants facing eviction. Read the story:
🖋️w/ Olivia W. Zheng for The Harvard Crimson
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La Colaborativa, an immigrant social service organization in Chelsea, opened a walk-in day services center on Tuesday for families staying in the state-run emergency homeless shelter in Cambridge.
Laurel Shugart reports.
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SCOOP in The Harvard Crimson w/Emma Haidar: The Harvard Corporation did not conduct a review of Gay's academic work during the last presidential search.
Two more accomplished scholars — HLS Dean John Manning and Radcliffe Dean Tomiko Brown-Nagin — were finalists.
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