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Residents and advocates urge Cambridge to continue Rise Up-style cash assistance and expand housing supports
Summary
Multiple public commenters urged the Council to create a successor to the ARPA-funded 'Rise Up' cash assistance program and to expand municipal housing vouchers and legal supports; commenters cited prior pilot numbers and the city’s high cost of living.
Several public commenters urged the Finance Committee to preserve or create a successor to the ARPA-funded "Rise Up" guaranteed-income pilot and to expand direct cash assistance and housing supports for low-income families.
Geeta Pradhan of the Cambridge Community Foundation told the committee the philanthropic community contributed "$1,600,000" for an early guaranteed-basic-income pilot that served about 30 single-parent households and said the…
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