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...Holmes transferred from Chicago last year, Alessandra Stanley arrived six months before that, and Joseph Kane came five years ago. Picture Researcher Martha Haymaker has seniority with 15 years' residence. But an exception marks every rule: Reporter Laura Meyers, who turned up statistics more current than the U.S. Census Bureau's, is a lifelong Angeleno...
With power so perilously poised between the two factions, the gain of a single seat by either camp would spell drastic changes in hotly debated city-wide policies such as zoning and rent control. So the release this spring of the first results from the 1980 census takes on special significance. The figures indicate that the racial balance, the occupational mix, and the number and type of homeowners have all changed substantially in the past decade. And while prognostication at this point is difficult because the statistics have yet to be broken down by neighborhood, city mavens agree that...
What is readily apparent from the census results is that the Cambridge of 1980 is vastly different from that of 1970. The process of "development"--or "gentrification," depending on the point of view is slowly creeping across the city. Blue-collar workers have slipped below 20 percent of the work force of a city once dominated by manufacturing. At the same time, single person and nonfamily households now outnumber family homes by more than 4000. Ten years ago, families owned 57 percent of all houses: today they control 45 percent. The change has come as upwardly mobile families are seeking...
...limits the number of homes for sale in order to present speculation particularly by condominium developers with low and moderate income housing. Much of the discussion of the power of the newly arrived paraprofessionals centers specifically on those who own condominiums. In 1970, no condos were counted in the census, the 1980 results indicate 2191 such units 10 years later. Some are occupied by tenants who purchased their apartments as condos; others are rented by the new white-collar crowd. But together they represent almost enough votes to elect a city councilor (2504 votes was enough...
...most noticeable change apparent from the 1980 census figures is the changing racial composition of the area. The city's population has in the past 10 years dropped 12.2 percent--from about 640,000 to 560,000. That drop comes from the falling white population--a loss of 22.4 percent over the decade, from...