​​CCC Mission: To create a better, more livable Cambridge. Cambridge Citywide  Coalition is a group of local residents dedicated to smart development, sustainability, affordable housing, and the preservation of our trees, green spaces, and historic architecture. We support realistic and common sense approaches to city finances, housing affordability, climate change, sustainability, transportation, public services, and social policy.  ​

Policies that matter on Accountability, Transparency, and Sustainability

• We support  a close scrutiny of the City Government around issues of accountability, Transparence and Good Government. 
• We  abhor the recent increase in bullying of residents and members of our adjudication boards.
• CCC was founded in the aftermath of the old Cambridge Civic Association that played a central role in the establishment of Plan E here.
• CCC plans to be involved in present and ongoing discussions as the core tenets of Plan E come under review. 
• CCC maintains that both the City Council and the City Itself needs much more transparency and accountability.
• CCC insists that Cambridge needs a plan. The Envision Process left us with a large number of goals (some of them contradictory). These issues need to be resolved and then we need the Planning Board and Council to formally approve the new plan.​

Policies that matter on Housing Affordability, Displacement, and Gentrification

• Employ city-owned land to build more affordable housing
• Create and use land trusts for affordable housing.
• Continue to employ inclusionary housing models
• Slow and eventually stop gentrification (initially by putting in place a 3 year moratorium on condo conversions)
• Stop the conversion of multi-family homes into single family homes
• Help tenants by requiring 3 month notification for lease terminations
• Help tenants buy homes through city backed or funded down payment for low-and-middle income tenants
• Require all large Cambridge employers to provide an area housing and transportation plan for  employees and affiliates with a goal of reaching 100% housed by 2040. Set yearly achievable goals accountable through fees if goals are not met.
• End exclusionary zoning (zoning for exclusively single family housing) - the Donovan petition we submitted – is one such avenue.
• Provide non-congregant housing for our unhoused population.
• Add greater density and height for housing specifically on our corridors near transportation and on or near sites where new commercial developments are occurring
• Encourage the creation of an independent renters alliance group to be effective in negotiations with the City and help guide renter-related policy.

Policies that matter on the Environment, Green Issues, and Sustainability

• Address citywide open space and tree needs, water needs
• Address site specific issues around flood zones
• Prevent further loss of our diminishing mature tree canopy
• Take our water issues seriously
• Take seriously issues of environmental equity and justice in open space and tree availability in the denser parts of the city.

Policies that matter on Equity, Justice, Community and Neighborhood Engagement 

• Inclusive processes that bring into play communities most impacted
• Address both organization and process in a way that engages neighborhoods
• We support the goals and processes of the HEART petition.
• We support Universal Pre-K (and are stunned that Cambridge does not yet have it). 
• We support Universal Broadband and urge the City to work with our universities and info-tech companies to make this a reality.
• We support City policies that would encourage Cambridge to become a global arts center (in visual arts, cuisine, music, theatre and other domains).

Policies that matter on Smart Growth, Infrastructure, Planning and Design

• Enact the Envision Plan after defining top priorities and addressing existing conflicts in language
• Open our local squares to more pedestrian engagement by limiting vehicular traffic during key parts of the day and night.
• Balance residential with commercial interests
• Holding  local companies and institutions accountable in providing an area plan to address  housing and transportation needs for employees and other affiliates