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Cambridge Fuel Assistance Program Helps Low-Income Residents Pay for Winter Heating Bills

The Fuel Assistance Program also helps clients access benefits offered through other agencies, such as gas and electric bill discounts, weatherization improvements like insulation and sealing, the state’s Heating System Repair and Replacement Program, and more.

Cambridge Celebrates Opening of its Newest Creative Center the Foundry

The 50,000 square foot space offers opportunities in science, technology, engineering, arts, and math, as well as areas and programs for visual and performing arts, entrepreneurship, workforce education, and community activities.

City Staff Provide Critical Support to Cambridge's Most Vulnerable Populations

Cambridge Public Library has a social worker who can help in person or over the phone. The social worker speaks English, Spanish, and Haitian Creole.

Cambridge Multi-Service Center Staff Help Residents Overcome Barriers to Housing and Access Critical Resources

The Multi-Service Center helps people who are experiencing homelessness and provides eviction prevention support to help people stay in their homes.

The Cambridge Almshouses and Avon Home for Children

From the beginning of English settlement in New England through the Revolutionary War, people in need turned to families, neighbors, and their church for help. Any without support became the town’s responsibility; children might be bound out as apprentices or servants, and adults hired as laborers.

Affordable Housing Basics at a Glance

Applying for housing can be confusing and overwhelming. This article contains basic information on applying for affordable housing.

Affordable Connectivity Program

This new federal program helps low-income households offset monthly costs of a new or existing internet service.

Access to Affordable Housing For All

Housing affordability promotes stability for our residents and allows for building the social, economic, and cultural bonds that strengthen a community. Creating and preserving affordable housing remains the City’s highest priority. In FY22, the City appropriated more than $32 million to the Affordable Housing Trust, bringing the total of City funds committed to the Trust to more than $278 million (FY92-FY22) to invest in affordable housing initiatives.

Supporting Youth and Families, Seniors, & Veterans

Preschool, Childcare, and Afterschool programs, a part of the Department of Human Service Programs (DHSP), returned to in-person care and child-centered programming in September 2021.

Educational Support and Workforce Development

The Birth to 3rd Grade Partnership (B3), continued its scholarship program for 3 and 4 year-olds from low-income families, adding two new programs to its menu of preschool options, and also increased its number of children accessing B3 scholarships by 13%.

Developing Universal Pre-K

The Birth to 3rd Grade (B3) Partnership is serving as the lead office in the design, development, and implementation of the City’s system of Universal Pre-K

Tobin Montessori and Vassal Lane Upper Schools Construction Underway

Located at 197 Vassal Lane, the new complex will house the Tobin Montessori School, Vassal Lane Upper Schools, the City’s Department of Human Services Programs preschool and after school programs, and Special Start.

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