List and Categorization of Blogs
CAMBRIDGE CITY GOVERNANCE, ELECTIONS, AND MEDIA
“Cambridge Elections: Numbers Count & What they Reveal About Voter Housing Priorities” (9.12.26) HERE
Democracy? Cambridge’s New Civic Assembly Initiative, Public Safety, and the Politics of Randomization” HERE
“Fire! CCC vs ABC Responses to the Roberts Rode Triple Decker Fire & What They Reveal About Each Cambridge Group” HERE
"The Ice-Cream Social: The ABC Political PAC , Cambridge Day, City Housing Policy, Civic Accountability and Issues of Value at 62-64 Prospect St" (8.24.26) HERE
“People Are Planting Yard Signs: the Movement to Pause MFH Upzoning is Growing” (8.20.26) HERE
“Azeem says rent is too high, his campaign doesn’t add up.” (8.29.26) HERE
“Envision Cambridge Revisited: Accountability, Goals, Reliability” (6.28.26): HERE
“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, FLOODING, SOLAR, AND TREES
“When Five Feet Isn’t Enough: How Cambridge Zoning Changes Put Trees and Flood Resilience at Risk” (video 7.20.26) HERE
“Cambridge’s Climate Blind Spot: Are Housing Policies Increasing Climate Risk?” 7.8.26 HERE
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
“Cambridge’s Airbnb Policy and the Housing Equation: Are We Building More and Housing Less?” (9.15.26). HERE
“Tax the Units, Keep the Land – the Vienna Model.” (9.12.26): HERE
“The Vienna Housing Model” by Patrick Condon (9.12.26) HERE
"September 1 in Cambridge: Student Housing Demand Meets the Upzoning Pipeline" (8.30.26) HERE
“Upzoning Entanglements: How Cambridge Day, A Better Cambridge, the Cambridge Community Foundation, and Key Committee Memberships are Interlinked” (8.22.26) HERE
“Fire! CCC vs ABC Responses to the Roberts Rode Triple Decker Fire & What They Reveal About Each Cambridge Group” (8.27.20) HERE
“Does Cambridge’s MFH Upzoning Increase Housing Costs” HERE
"Fires and Property Lines: Upzoning Lessons from 9 Roberts Road (Building Codes stop at Legal Boundaries Fires Do Not)" (8.14.26) HERE
"Cambridge’s Density Paradox" by Jeffrey Meese (8.14.26) HERE
“Who’s who in Cambridge’s Upzoning: the Key People and Groups” (8.11.26): HERE
“Upzoning Trials: the Inside Story of Banks Street, Chabad, City Hall, & Private Developers” (8.10.26) HERE
“Go Fast, Break Things: Cambridge Did it with How it Builds Housing” by Louise Venden in Cambridge/Somerville Independent (7.30.26): HERE
“The Harriet Jacobs House: 17 Story St. and the High Cost of Cambridge’s New Zoning” (7.26.26) HERE
“29 Sargent St in Cambridge Highlands: An Upzoning Warning” (7.26.26) HERE
“How Developers Create Value by Finding the Highest and Best Use of Land” by Ed Abrams (7.24.26) HERE
" The Great National Housing Cost Debate and How Cambridge Fits In" (7.22.26) HERE
"Normandy Ave Invasions: What Happens When an Entire Neighborhood Becomes a Potential Construction Site" (7.21.26) HERE
"The Security Deposit That Disappeared and What it Says About the Cambridge Housing Market Today” by Andrew Schlesinger” (7.21.26) HERE
"Curb-Cut Applications: Tracking Cambridge’s Demolition and Redevelopment Pattern: the 202 Garden St. Example" (7.21.26) HERE
“When a 20% Affordable-Housing Requirement Produces Less Zoning: What a new California study may tell us about Cambridge – and what it leaves out” (7.20.26) HERE
“From Housing Policy to Investment Product: What As of Right Upzoning is Producing in Cambridge” 7.7.26 HERE
“False Promises on Upzoning: Housing Misinformation , Marc McGovern, and the Pivot” (6.28.26) HERE
“Envision Cambridge Revisited: Accountability, Goals, Reliability” 6.28.26 HERE
“Letter to a city Councillor on the New Upzoning by Joe Adiletta” (1o.24.25): HERE
“Notes on our Planning Board’s Upzoning Meeting” (10.24.25) 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
"Welcoming Neighbors, Churches, AI Money and the National Network Behind Cambridge’s Zoning Politics” (8.22.26) HERE
“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, TRANSIT, INFRASTRUCTURE
“Cambridge’s $13 billion Sewer Infrastructure Challenge: Who Pays for Growth?” (7.12.26). HERE
The Imaginary Future of Cambridge Transportation (2.25.25) by John Pitkin HERE
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
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
"Housing Super PAC Spends $93,000 to Back Azeem’s State Senate Campaign” Harvard Crimson (8.18.26) HERE
“My Opinion: The Systematic Economic Downgrade of Cambridge’s Mass Ave Corridor” by Jeffrey Meese. (7.12.26). HERE
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
Suzanne Preston Blier and Heather Hoffman “Cambridge’s proposed charter: Two thumbs down” Cambridge Day. October 29, 2025. HERE
Suzanne Preston Blier “Honoring Harriet Jacobs with a Luxury Hotel?” Cambridge Day (8.25.2025) HERE
Suzanne Preston Blier "How to vote in Cambridge, where Ballots allow candidates to be ranked in order of preference." Cambridge Day (9.24.23) HERE
Suzanne Preston Blier “A note of thanks after the 2023 election season” (11.11.23) HERE
Suzanne Preston Blier “The Affordable Housing Overlay: A First-Year Report” Cambridge Day (8/19.21) HERE
Suzanne Preston Blier “How a smart city makes dumb environmental choices” Cambridge Day (7.14.21) HERE
Suzanne Preston Blier “Throw Some Shade Cambridge’s Way” Cambridge Day (7.13.21) HERE
Suzanne Preston Blier “The ‘Offal’ Truth Behind Cambridge Zoning” (4.22.41) Cambridge Day HERE
Suzanne Preston Blier “Does housing really become less affordable within conservation districts? Actually, No” Cambridge Day (10.17.2020) HERE
CAMBRIDGE CITY GOVERNANCE, ELECTIONS, AND MEDIA
“Cambridge Elections: Numbers Count & What they Reveal About Voter Housing Priorities” (9.12.26) HERE
Democracy? Cambridge’s New Civic Assembly Initiative, Public Safety, and the Politics of Randomization” HERE
“Fire! CCC vs ABC Responses to the Roberts Rode Triple Decker Fire & What They Reveal About Each Cambridge Group” HERE
"The Ice-Cream Social: The ABC Political PAC , Cambridge Day, City Housing Policy, Civic Accountability and Issues of Value at 62-64 Prospect St" (8.24.26) HERE
“People Are Planting Yard Signs: the Movement to Pause MFH Upzoning is Growing” (8.20.26) HERE
“Azeem says rent is too high, his campaign doesn’t add up.” (8.29.26) HERE
“Envision Cambridge Revisited: Accountability, Goals, Reliability” (6.28.26): HERE
“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, FLOODING, SOLAR, AND TREES
“When Five Feet Isn’t Enough: How Cambridge Zoning Changes Put Trees and Flood Resilience at Risk” (video 7.20.26) HERE
“Cambridge’s Climate Blind Spot: Are Housing Policies Increasing Climate Risk?” 7.8.26 HERE
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
“Cambridge’s Airbnb Policy and the Housing Equation: Are We Building More and Housing Less?” (9.15.26). HERE
“Tax the Units, Keep the Land – the Vienna Model.” (9.12.26): HERE
“The Vienna Housing Model” by Patrick Condon (9.12.26) HERE
"September 1 in Cambridge: Student Housing Demand Meets the Upzoning Pipeline" (8.30.26) HERE
“Upzoning Entanglements: How Cambridge Day, A Better Cambridge, the Cambridge Community Foundation, and Key Committee Memberships are Interlinked” (8.22.26) HERE
“Fire! CCC vs ABC Responses to the Roberts Rode Triple Decker Fire & What They Reveal About Each Cambridge Group” (8.27.20) HERE
“Does Cambridge’s MFH Upzoning Increase Housing Costs” HERE
"Fires and Property Lines: Upzoning Lessons from 9 Roberts Road (Building Codes stop at Legal Boundaries Fires Do Not)" (8.14.26) HERE
"Cambridge’s Density Paradox" by Jeffrey Meese (8.14.26) HERE
“Who’s who in Cambridge’s Upzoning: the Key People and Groups” (8.11.26): HERE
“Upzoning Trials: the Inside Story of Banks Street, Chabad, City Hall, & Private Developers” (8.10.26) HERE
“Go Fast, Break Things: Cambridge Did it with How it Builds Housing” by Louise Venden in Cambridge/Somerville Independent (7.30.26): HERE
“The Harriet Jacobs House: 17 Story St. and the High Cost of Cambridge’s New Zoning” (7.26.26) HERE
“29 Sargent St in Cambridge Highlands: An Upzoning Warning” (7.26.26) HERE
“How Developers Create Value by Finding the Highest and Best Use of Land” by Ed Abrams (7.24.26) HERE
" The Great National Housing Cost Debate and How Cambridge Fits In" (7.22.26) HERE
"Normandy Ave Invasions: What Happens When an Entire Neighborhood Becomes a Potential Construction Site" (7.21.26) HERE
"The Security Deposit That Disappeared and What it Says About the Cambridge Housing Market Today” by Andrew Schlesinger” (7.21.26) HERE
"Curb-Cut Applications: Tracking Cambridge’s Demolition and Redevelopment Pattern: the 202 Garden St. Example" (7.21.26) HERE
“When a 20% Affordable-Housing Requirement Produces Less Zoning: What a new California study may tell us about Cambridge – and what it leaves out” (7.20.26) HERE
“From Housing Policy to Investment Product: What As of Right Upzoning is Producing in Cambridge” 7.7.26 HERE
“False Promises on Upzoning: Housing Misinformation , Marc McGovern, and the Pivot” (6.28.26) HERE
“Envision Cambridge Revisited: Accountability, Goals, Reliability” 6.28.26 HERE
“Letter to a city Councillor on the New Upzoning by Joe Adiletta” (1o.24.25): HERE
“Notes on our Planning Board’s Upzoning Meeting” (10.24.25) 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
"Welcoming Neighbors, Churches, AI Money and the National Network Behind Cambridge’s Zoning Politics” (8.22.26) HERE
“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, TRANSIT, INFRASTRUCTURE
“Cambridge’s $13 billion Sewer Infrastructure Challenge: Who Pays for Growth?” (7.12.26). HERE
The Imaginary Future of Cambridge Transportation (2.25.25) by John Pitkin HERE
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
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
"Housing Super PAC Spends $93,000 to Back Azeem’s State Senate Campaign” Harvard Crimson (8.18.26) HERE
“My Opinion: The Systematic Economic Downgrade of Cambridge’s Mass Ave Corridor” by Jeffrey Meese. (7.12.26). HERE
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
Suzanne Preston Blier and Heather Hoffman “Cambridge’s proposed charter: Two thumbs down” Cambridge Day. October 29, 2025. HERE
Suzanne Preston Blier “Honoring Harriet Jacobs with a Luxury Hotel?” Cambridge Day (8.25.2025) HERE
Suzanne Preston Blier "How to vote in Cambridge, where Ballots allow candidates to be ranked in order of preference." Cambridge Day (9.24.23) HERE
Suzanne Preston Blier “A note of thanks after the 2023 election season” (11.11.23) HERE
Suzanne Preston Blier “The Affordable Housing Overlay: A First-Year Report” Cambridge Day (8/19.21) HERE
Suzanne Preston Blier “How a smart city makes dumb environmental choices” Cambridge Day (7.14.21) HERE
Suzanne Preston Blier “Throw Some Shade Cambridge’s Way” Cambridge Day (7.13.21) HERE
Suzanne Preston Blier “The ‘Offal’ Truth Behind Cambridge Zoning” (4.22.41) Cambridge Day HERE
Suzanne Preston Blier “Does housing really become less affordable within conservation districts? Actually, No” Cambridge Day (10.17.2020) HERE
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