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In its first one and a half years, Cambridge Model Cities has originated a wide variety of programs, including rehabilitation and construction of housing units, job training, a family center, a free dental clinic, services to the elderly, two day care centers, adult education and a pre-teen center.
The basic hope of the planners was that depressed neighborhoods could improve themselves with a minimum of outside professional direction. Model Cities is a confrontation-oriented structure, designed to experiment with a wide range of neighborhood assistance proposals, spin off the ones that work, and let the people of a...
Ostensible control over Model Cities is vested in a 24-member CDA Board. Sixteen of the Board members are residents of the model neighborhood, elected for two-year terms. The remaining board members are drawn from various constituencies outside the neighborhood. The relevant portion of the CDA enabling legislation empowers...
The Model Cities Board in Cambridge contains some fiery people who are not the least bit intimidated by Corcoran's intransigence or Cronin's retorts during the sit-in. The real issue, it seemed, was deeper than the two contracts and the pay raise that had been lying dormant on...
For the past week, virtually the entire staff has been going door to door in the model neighborhood, trying to rally constituent support for their power clash with City Hall. They have been ringing doorbells, collecting signatures on a petition backing the CDA board, and talking to the people they...