Chalk Your Walk
Enjoy a creative and fun public art form that can help you connect your community!
Neighborhood Planning Initiative
Cambridge’s Neighborhood Planning Initiative (NPI) gives everyone in Cambridge access to local planning! Together we can improve the places and activities that are central to your daily life.
Housing Resources
During this public health crisis, we want to assure you that the City of Cambridge is working hard to ensure that all of our residents stay safe and healthy.
2018 Resident Survey Results
The results from this survey indicate that overall resident views of the City of Cambridge remain positive—although some key measures have reverted back to less positive 2014 levels. On perhaps the most all encompassing measure of resident sentiment, “extreme” satisfaction with overall experiences with the city
remains at the record high level for the 18-year history of this survey program.
Healthy Harvard Square
Healthy Harvard Square Initiative was a series of community discussions conducted by the Economic Development Division during 2005 and 2006 about maintaining a Healthy Harvard Square.
Stretch Energy Code 2023
on January 23, 2023, the City 01 Cambridge adopted the commonwealth 01 Massachusetts's new
Municipal Opt-in Specialized Stretch Energy Code, ioining the communities 01 Brookline and
Watertown. The code, which goes into ellect in Cambridge on July 1, 2023, is to support the City's
Net zero goals.
Bishop Allen Apts. (formerly Norstin Apts.)
Bishop Allen Apartments, (formertly called Norstin Apartments) consists of properties near the corner of Norfolk St and Bishop Allen Drive. Four buildings contain 32 units of affordable housing.
CPD Promotes 2 New Lieutenants, 5 New Sergeants
The Cambridge Police Department is pleased to announce the promotion of two new Lieutenants and five new Sergeants.
Promoted to the Rank of Lieutenant:
Jonathan Russell
Michael Nickerson
Promoted to the Rank of Sergeant:
Michael R. Morrissey
David Porter
Matthew Sousa
Simon Valentin
Brianna M. Yearwood
LGBTQ+ Fair Housing Event Flyer
Cambridge Human Rights Commission (CHRC) will present on housing discrimination based on sexual orientation and/or gender identity. Learn about the types of complaints we typically investigate, possible outcomes, and other resources.