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After nearly 50 years as a Cambridge resident, including 40 years serving the Cambridge community as a social worker specializing in mental health, I never imagined I would find myself opposing a measure that purports to expand affordable housing in the city. The recent multi-family ordinance was a well-intentioned step towards addressing our affordable housing shortage. But I now have a front row seat to its unintended consequences, and it is deeply disturbing.

The new zoning, voted in 8-1 by the current City Council, is allowing a mammoth 70+ unit building to go up next door to my side-facing home, within several feet of my front door, in an already-dense neighborhood. It wil

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