List and Categorization of Blogs
CAMBRIDGE CITY GOVERNANCE, ELECTIONS, AND MEDIA
“Cambridge’s Proposed Charter: Two Thumbs Down.” Cambridge Day Opinion Piece by Suzanne P. Blier and Heather Hoffman (for the Cambridge Citizens Coalition): (10.29.25). HERE
“Developers and Building Trades: Who’s Funding Cambridge Campaigns.” (10.13.25) HERE
“The Tax Illusion: Why We Deserve the Truth” (10.10.25): HERE
"Proposed City Charter Changes on the Nov 4 Ballot" (9.30.25) HERE
“Follow the Money: Where 2025 Election Donations Come From” (9.30.24) HERE
"Pulling Together: Why Ranking the Whole Coalition Matters" (9.26.25) HERE
“The Election Politics of Cambridge Candidate Endorsement Questionnaires: What is Being Asked and How.” 9.12.25 HERE
"Ice Cream, Newspaper Ethics, and Ongoing Cambridge City Politics" (9.6.25) HERE
ENVIRONMENT AND TREES
High Waters, Higher Stakes: Why Cambridge Must Rethink Future Development (also Published in Cambridge Day on 2.10.25): HERE
Deconstruct Don’t Demolish: Older Building Reuse (1.29.25): HERE
Upzoning Green Space VS Open Space VS Green Roofs VS Climate Harm (1.21.25) HERE
Take CARE: Up-Zoning Can Bring Major Solar Panel-linked Environmental and Economic Losses (1.25.25) HERE
BEUDO: What Every Cambridge Resident Should Be Following (7.27.23): HERE
Environmental Impacts & Upzoning: Trees, City Policy, and Practice (10.3.24): HERE
Cambridge Trees: Policy and Impacts (9.29.24): HERE
CCC Advisor & Landscape Architect, Elena Sapporta, reports on Memorial Drive's threatened Sycamore trees: HERE
ZONING & Housing: CAMBRIDGE SPECIFIC ANALYSES AND OVERVIEWS
“Letter to a city Councillor on the New Upzoning by Joe Aliletta” (Oct 24, 2025): HERE
“Notes on our Planning Board’s Upzoning Meeting” (10.24.15) HERE
“From Neighborhood to Canyon: The Real Impact of Cambridge’s Upzoning Plan” (10.8.25) HERE
"When Bad Policy and Silenced Oversight Meet: North Cambridge Demolition Stories" (10.7.25) HERE
“Home Demolition Increases: Feb 10 Citywide Rezoning” (10.1.25) HERE
“From Boom to Balance: A Shifting Housing Market in Cambridge” (9.30.25) HERE
“Cambridge’s First Upzoning Case & Historic Black Neighborhood” (9.6.25) HERE
"A Sorry Tale: Profiting from the February 10, 2025 Upzoning" (8.24.25) HERE
"Honoring Harriet Jacobs - with a Luxury Hotel?" (8.12.25): HERE
"Cambridge Point: A New Housing Crossroads" (7.26.25) HERE
“Demolishing the Truth: What ABC and Banker & Tradesman Gets Wrong About Cambridge’s Housing Slowdown” (7.21.25) HERE
Cambridge’s June 2025 Housing Report: 15 Problems That Expose the Pro-Developer Agenda" (6.28.25). HERE
Zoning, History, and Cambridge's Future: the June 17, 2025 Housing Report Tells us" (Are Cambridge Zoning Changes Bad for the City?) (6.22.25) HERE
Upzoning Harm: The 2025 Harvard Housing Report, Mandani’s NYC Win & Cambridge” (6.25.25) HERE
Housing Secrets (Facts) – Perspectives from Sen. Pat Jehlen’s June Newsletter" (6.24.25) HERE
Cambridge Corridor & Square Upzoning: Let’s Do This One Right (3.1.25) HERE
Our Six Part Series: Cambridge YIMBY Win? Initial Results & Reflections
Part One -- “Take a Look. It’s Already Happening” HERE
Part Two -- "YIMBY Present and Past" HERE
Part Three -- "Strawberry Fields Forever" HERE
Part Four -- "A PRIMER: Our Revolutionary YIMBY Success Story" HERE
Part Five -- "Cambridge is Number 1!!!" HERE
Part Six -- " The Role of Students in our Recent YIMBY Victory HERE
Part Seven -- "Updates: Specific Examples Resulting in Rezoning Initiative" HERE
Part Eight -- "Summary of YIMBY blogposts and Further News"HERE
Cambridge YIMBY win? Initial Results and Reflections (2.20.25): HERE
Flawed CDD Housing Projections by Young Kim (4.9.25) HERE
Multi-Family/AHO Zoning Petition Comments & Recommendations by Architect Dennis Carlone (Neighborhood Nine Presentation of 1.6.26/2.9.25). HERE
Property Value Impacts in Upzoning by Charles Norris (1.31.24) HERE
Housing Outlooks: Demography, Migration, Changing Home Starts (1.30.25) HERE
The View From My Window (1.25.25) HERE
Multi-Family Project Reviews in the Up-Zoning Petition by Gordon Moore (1.24.25) HERE
Dirt: Why is Vancouver so Insanely Expensive (extract from P. Condon’s Jan 16, 2025 Maclean article) HERE
Design Impacts for Homes new Squares and Corridors by Gordon Moore HERE
Cambridge: Up-zoning Increases Gentrification and Reduces Affordability by Realtor, Ed Abrams (1.14.25) HERE
Three Cambridge Photos: The Story of Upzoning Impacts (1.14.25) HERE
Diversity, Bias, Age, Race & Gentrification in Our Zoning Criteria (1.13.25): HERE
Form-Based Zoning: Cambridge Goal Since 2021 (1.12.25): HERE
Roll the Dice: Randomness Planning & Its Problems (1.12.25): HERE
Mapping Cambridge Housing Diversity & Potential Housing Impacts (3.13.24): HERE
Cambridge Specific Needs: Upzoning for Best Outcomes (11.21.24): HERE
Doing the Math: On Residents Housing and Rezoning (11.18.24): HERE
City Housing Data Matters: Graphs, Maps, Analysis (9.28.24) HERE
Why Housing Prices are So High & Going Higher (10.23.24) HERE
How to Get Far Better Housing Results (10.14.24): HERE
Likely Citywide Zoning Impacts: What Most Residents Do Not Know (9.27.24): HERE
Cambridge Residents Speak Out Against the Upzoning (1.7.25): HERE
What Responsible Zoning Entails (9.22.24): HERE
No Rules Zoning: One Architect’s View of demolishing 3-Story Homes (9.15.24): HERE
Zoning-in on the 2024 Cambridge City Council Upzoning Petition (5.10.24): HERE
Cambridge Citywide Upzoning Discussions and Data (10.3.24): HERE
CAMBRIDGE AND COMPARATIVE ENGAGEMENTS
“Preserving Cambridge or Selling It Off? The Real Story Behind the ‘Paris-Style’ Luxury Housing Upzoning Reform.” (8.24.25) HERE
"Who Plans the City & For Whom? The assumption that community involvement is a barrier to housing is simply false." HorizonMass (7.17.25) HERE
Who Owns the City? Reclaiming Civic Power from Outside Developers" HorizonMASS by Blier (7.4.25): HERE
Billionaires versus Boomers: Who is to Blame for the Housing Crisis? (3.17.25): HERE
How Investors are Now Outbidding Local Buyers: Letter to Constituents by State Senator Pat Jehlen: HERE
Land Speculation & Property Tax problems (12.17.24): HERE
Housing Prices & Crisis Capitalism (with a Cambridge focus – 12.9.24): HERE
Why Housing Prices are so High and Going Higher (10.23.24) HERE (w. Cambridge data on demolitions, prices)
Disaster Capitalism and our Housing Crisis (12.4.24): HERE
Urban History Matters: Here, There, and in Film (11.27.24): HERE
Towering impacts: Planning Locally for the Realities ahead (11.10.24): HEAD
The Cat in the Hat & Housing: Breaking Past Rules, Likely Outcomes (11.7.24): HERE
How to Get Far Better Housing Results (10.14.24): HERE
BROADER POLICY STUDIES AROUND HOUSING, UP-ZONING & COSTS
"What Vancouver can Teach Cambridge about Increasing Housing Density and Affordability” (7.22.25) HERE
"Up-Zoned: Economists Weigh-In" (3.18.24). HERE
"Science is Real: Cambridge House Flipping and Cost Factors in Luxury Housing Upzoning" (3.12.25) HERE
Open Letter to a City Councillor by Lawrence and Lynn Cetrolo (2.28.25): HERE
“Uglification of Metro-Vancouver Mass-Upzoning” Vancouver Sun (11.28.24) HERE
DODGE: Deputies of Destructive Government Excess: Time to Vote No Against the Upzoning by Donald Grossman HERE
How Much New Housing Do We Need (2.1.25): HERE
How to Make Housing More Affordable in Cambridge (1.30.25): HERE
What happens when a city leaves planning & development up to market forces, without design review and oversight: Urban Planners Speak Out on the Cambridge Upzoning Proposal (1.8.25): HERE
Housing Truths, The Hard Facts (what other scholars are saying - 1.7.25): HERE
Trickle Down & Supply Demand (12.17.24): HERE
NYC lessons & Up-Zoning Housing Policy (12.9.24): HERE
Reinventing the Construction Industry to Build More Housing (12.8.24): HERE
Zoning Lessons from Other Cities: Will We Heed Them (10.31.24) HERE
(includes: Austin, Chicago, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, Portland, San Francisco, Vancouver, & other International)
SCHOOLS
You Would Never Hire a CEO This Way by Elizabeth Hudson (8.5.25) HERE
Kennedy-Longfellow School Changes by Cambridge School Committee Member, Elizabeth Hudson (12.17.24) HERE
TRANSPORTATION
The Imaginary Future of Cambridge Transportation (2.25.25) by John Pitkin HERE
Parking Minimalism Plans in Cambridge: Why Facts Matter (2.27.22) HERE
Removing Parking Minimums: Likely Consequences: The Buffalo Story (10.11.22): HERE
UP-ZONING - LOCAL & PUBLICLY FUNDED HOUSING
Upzoning for Dummies: Our citywide up-zoning proposal simplified (10.22.24): HERE
Cambridge Zoning History (with Charles Sullivan - 5.6.21): HERE
[note C.N.A. appears to have removed the video].
Playing Monopoly in Cambridge is Not Just a Game (9.29.21): HERE
Frogs R Us: Unrestrained Development Threatens to Boil us (10.18.21) HERE
Housing for All, Not at All Costs (Doug Brown, Kelly Dolan, Alison Field-Juma
(6.12.19) HERE
CCC 2024 Overview and 2025 Goals (12.30.24) HERE
Radical New AHO Upzoning: Developers Dream (11.18.22) HERE
AHO Interim Report: Past, Present, Future (7.15.24) HERE
OTHER ENGAGEMENTS
CCC's blogpost on "Our City's Proposed New Design Guidelines"(3.16.25) HERE
CCC 2025 State of the City Report (2.27.25) HERE
CCC Advisor, Federico Muchnik, has a new film, "An Ideal Husband (updated in a local setting) featured in Cambridge Day (2.23.25) HERE
CAMBRIDGE CITY GOVERNANCE, ELECTIONS, AND MEDIA
“Cambridge’s Proposed Charter: Two Thumbs Down.” Cambridge Day Opinion Piece by Suzanne P. Blier and Heather Hoffman (for the Cambridge Citizens Coalition): (10.29.25). HERE
“Developers and Building Trades: Who’s Funding Cambridge Campaigns.” (10.13.25) HERE
“The Tax Illusion: Why We Deserve the Truth” (10.10.25): HERE
"Proposed City Charter Changes on the Nov 4 Ballot" (9.30.25) HERE
“Follow the Money: Where 2025 Election Donations Come From” (9.30.24) HERE
"Pulling Together: Why Ranking the Whole Coalition Matters" (9.26.25) HERE
“The Election Politics of Cambridge Candidate Endorsement Questionnaires: What is Being Asked and How.” 9.12.25 HERE
"Ice Cream, Newspaper Ethics, and Ongoing Cambridge City Politics" (9.6.25) HERE
ENVIRONMENT AND TREES
High Waters, Higher Stakes: Why Cambridge Must Rethink Future Development (also Published in Cambridge Day on 2.10.25): HERE
Deconstruct Don’t Demolish: Older Building Reuse (1.29.25): HERE
Upzoning Green Space VS Open Space VS Green Roofs VS Climate Harm (1.21.25) HERE
Take CARE: Up-Zoning Can Bring Major Solar Panel-linked Environmental and Economic Losses (1.25.25) HERE
BEUDO: What Every Cambridge Resident Should Be Following (7.27.23): HERE
Environmental Impacts & Upzoning: Trees, City Policy, and Practice (10.3.24): HERE
Cambridge Trees: Policy and Impacts (9.29.24): HERE
CCC Advisor & Landscape Architect, Elena Sapporta, reports on Memorial Drive's threatened Sycamore trees: HERE
ZONING & Housing: CAMBRIDGE SPECIFIC ANALYSES AND OVERVIEWS
“Letter to a city Councillor on the New Upzoning by Joe Aliletta” (Oct 24, 2025): HERE
“Notes on our Planning Board’s Upzoning Meeting” (10.24.15) HERE
“From Neighborhood to Canyon: The Real Impact of Cambridge’s Upzoning Plan” (10.8.25) HERE
"When Bad Policy and Silenced Oversight Meet: North Cambridge Demolition Stories" (10.7.25) HERE
“Home Demolition Increases: Feb 10 Citywide Rezoning” (10.1.25) HERE
“From Boom to Balance: A Shifting Housing Market in Cambridge” (9.30.25) HERE
“Cambridge’s First Upzoning Case & Historic Black Neighborhood” (9.6.25) HERE
"A Sorry Tale: Profiting from the February 10, 2025 Upzoning" (8.24.25) HERE
"Honoring Harriet Jacobs - with a Luxury Hotel?" (8.12.25): HERE
"Cambridge Point: A New Housing Crossroads" (7.26.25) HERE
“Demolishing the Truth: What ABC and Banker & Tradesman Gets Wrong About Cambridge’s Housing Slowdown” (7.21.25) HERE
Cambridge’s June 2025 Housing Report: 15 Problems That Expose the Pro-Developer Agenda" (6.28.25). HERE
Zoning, History, and Cambridge's Future: the June 17, 2025 Housing Report Tells us" (Are Cambridge Zoning Changes Bad for the City?) (6.22.25) HERE
Upzoning Harm: The 2025 Harvard Housing Report, Mandani’s NYC Win & Cambridge” (6.25.25) HERE
Housing Secrets (Facts) – Perspectives from Sen. Pat Jehlen’s June Newsletter" (6.24.25) HERE
Cambridge Corridor & Square Upzoning: Let’s Do This One Right (3.1.25) HERE
Our Six Part Series: Cambridge YIMBY Win? Initial Results & Reflections
Part One -- “Take a Look. It’s Already Happening” HERE
Part Two -- "YIMBY Present and Past" HERE
Part Three -- "Strawberry Fields Forever" HERE
Part Four -- "A PRIMER: Our Revolutionary YIMBY Success Story" HERE
Part Five -- "Cambridge is Number 1!!!" HERE
Part Six -- " The Role of Students in our Recent YIMBY Victory HERE
Part Seven -- "Updates: Specific Examples Resulting in Rezoning Initiative" HERE
Part Eight -- "Summary of YIMBY blogposts and Further News"HERE
Cambridge YIMBY win? Initial Results and Reflections (2.20.25): HERE
Flawed CDD Housing Projections by Young Kim (4.9.25) HERE
Multi-Family/AHO Zoning Petition Comments & Recommendations by Architect Dennis Carlone (Neighborhood Nine Presentation of 1.6.26/2.9.25). HERE
Property Value Impacts in Upzoning by Charles Norris (1.31.24) HERE
Housing Outlooks: Demography, Migration, Changing Home Starts (1.30.25) HERE
The View From My Window (1.25.25) HERE
Multi-Family Project Reviews in the Up-Zoning Petition by Gordon Moore (1.24.25) HERE
Dirt: Why is Vancouver so Insanely Expensive (extract from P. Condon’s Jan 16, 2025 Maclean article) HERE
Design Impacts for Homes new Squares and Corridors by Gordon Moore HERE
Cambridge: Up-zoning Increases Gentrification and Reduces Affordability by Realtor, Ed Abrams (1.14.25) HERE
Three Cambridge Photos: The Story of Upzoning Impacts (1.14.25) HERE
Diversity, Bias, Age, Race & Gentrification in Our Zoning Criteria (1.13.25): HERE
Form-Based Zoning: Cambridge Goal Since 2021 (1.12.25): HERE
Roll the Dice: Randomness Planning & Its Problems (1.12.25): HERE
Mapping Cambridge Housing Diversity & Potential Housing Impacts (3.13.24): HERE
Cambridge Specific Needs: Upzoning for Best Outcomes (11.21.24): HERE
Doing the Math: On Residents Housing and Rezoning (11.18.24): HERE
City Housing Data Matters: Graphs, Maps, Analysis (9.28.24) HERE
Why Housing Prices are So High & Going Higher (10.23.24) HERE
How to Get Far Better Housing Results (10.14.24): HERE
Likely Citywide Zoning Impacts: What Most Residents Do Not Know (9.27.24): HERE
Cambridge Residents Speak Out Against the Upzoning (1.7.25): HERE
What Responsible Zoning Entails (9.22.24): HERE
No Rules Zoning: One Architect’s View of demolishing 3-Story Homes (9.15.24): HERE
Zoning-in on the 2024 Cambridge City Council Upzoning Petition (5.10.24): HERE
Cambridge Citywide Upzoning Discussions and Data (10.3.24): HERE
CAMBRIDGE AND COMPARATIVE ENGAGEMENTS
“Preserving Cambridge or Selling It Off? The Real Story Behind the ‘Paris-Style’ Luxury Housing Upzoning Reform.” (8.24.25) HERE
"Who Plans the City & For Whom? The assumption that community involvement is a barrier to housing is simply false." HorizonMass (7.17.25) HERE
Who Owns the City? Reclaiming Civic Power from Outside Developers" HorizonMASS by Blier (7.4.25): HERE
Billionaires versus Boomers: Who is to Blame for the Housing Crisis? (3.17.25): HERE
How Investors are Now Outbidding Local Buyers: Letter to Constituents by State Senator Pat Jehlen: HERE
Land Speculation & Property Tax problems (12.17.24): HERE
Housing Prices & Crisis Capitalism (with a Cambridge focus – 12.9.24): HERE
Why Housing Prices are so High and Going Higher (10.23.24) HERE (w. Cambridge data on demolitions, prices)
Disaster Capitalism and our Housing Crisis (12.4.24): HERE
Urban History Matters: Here, There, and in Film (11.27.24): HERE
Towering impacts: Planning Locally for the Realities ahead (11.10.24): HEAD
The Cat in the Hat & Housing: Breaking Past Rules, Likely Outcomes (11.7.24): HERE
How to Get Far Better Housing Results (10.14.24): HERE
BROADER POLICY STUDIES AROUND HOUSING, UP-ZONING & COSTS
"What Vancouver can Teach Cambridge about Increasing Housing Density and Affordability” (7.22.25) HERE
"Up-Zoned: Economists Weigh-In" (3.18.24). HERE
"Science is Real: Cambridge House Flipping and Cost Factors in Luxury Housing Upzoning" (3.12.25) HERE
Open Letter to a City Councillor by Lawrence and Lynn Cetrolo (2.28.25): HERE
“Uglification of Metro-Vancouver Mass-Upzoning” Vancouver Sun (11.28.24) HERE
DODGE: Deputies of Destructive Government Excess: Time to Vote No Against the Upzoning by Donald Grossman HERE
How Much New Housing Do We Need (2.1.25): HERE
How to Make Housing More Affordable in Cambridge (1.30.25): HERE
What happens when a city leaves planning & development up to market forces, without design review and oversight: Urban Planners Speak Out on the Cambridge Upzoning Proposal (1.8.25): HERE
Housing Truths, The Hard Facts (what other scholars are saying - 1.7.25): HERE
Trickle Down & Supply Demand (12.17.24): HERE
NYC lessons & Up-Zoning Housing Policy (12.9.24): HERE
Reinventing the Construction Industry to Build More Housing (12.8.24): HERE
Zoning Lessons from Other Cities: Will We Heed Them (10.31.24) HERE
(includes: Austin, Chicago, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, Portland, San Francisco, Vancouver, & other International)
SCHOOLS
You Would Never Hire a CEO This Way by Elizabeth Hudson (8.5.25) HERE
Kennedy-Longfellow School Changes by Cambridge School Committee Member, Elizabeth Hudson (12.17.24) HERE
TRANSPORTATION
The Imaginary Future of Cambridge Transportation (2.25.25) by John Pitkin HERE
Parking Minimalism Plans in Cambridge: Why Facts Matter (2.27.22) HERE
Removing Parking Minimums: Likely Consequences: The Buffalo Story (10.11.22): HERE
UP-ZONING - LOCAL & PUBLICLY FUNDED HOUSING
Upzoning for Dummies: Our citywide up-zoning proposal simplified (10.22.24): HERE
Cambridge Zoning History (with Charles Sullivan - 5.6.21): HERE
[note C.N.A. appears to have removed the video].
Playing Monopoly in Cambridge is Not Just a Game (9.29.21): HERE
Frogs R Us: Unrestrained Development Threatens to Boil us (10.18.21) HERE
Housing for All, Not at All Costs (Doug Brown, Kelly Dolan, Alison Field-Juma
(6.12.19) HERE
CCC 2024 Overview and 2025 Goals (12.30.24) HERE
Radical New AHO Upzoning: Developers Dream (11.18.22) HERE
AHO Interim Report: Past, Present, Future (7.15.24) HERE
OTHER ENGAGEMENTS
CCC's blogpost on "Our City's Proposed New Design Guidelines"(3.16.25) HERE
CCC 2025 State of the City Report (2.27.25) HERE
CCC Advisor, Federico Muchnik, has a new film, "An Ideal Husband (updated in a local setting) featured in Cambridge Day (2.23.25) HERE
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