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The City administration and City Council continue to recognize the importance of minimizing increases in water and sewer rates.

Need Help Paying Your Energy Bill? Meet with City staff and Eversource representatives to learn more about resources that help lower energy and costs.

Iram Farooq, Assistant City Manager of Community Development, is leaving the City to become the Managing Director of Campus Planning at Harvard University.

'Patricia Thaxton: The Beauty of Everyday Living' at Cambridge Arts’ Gallery 344, Oct. 24 to Feb 28

City Manager Huang has provided a detailed first half 2025 overview, including background on federal challenges facing the City, Cambridge's transparent and accountable local democracy, affordable housing policy changes and investments, and Fiscal Year 2026 budget highlights. We encourage community members to learn more about the amazing work happening across the City and how we are managing many complex and difficult challenges as a community.

Living in Cambridge comes with more than just access to top-tier education, diverse neighborhoods, and vibrant culture. The City of Cambridge offers a robust selection of free and discounted programs designed to support residents’ financial, educational, environmental, and recreational needs. Whether you're a student, older adult, renter, or homeowner, there's likely a program available to help improve your well-being and quality of life. This latest issue of The Cambridge Life provides an overview of some valuable offerings residents new to the City to lifelong Cantabrigians should know about.

The Economic Opportunity & Development (EOD) team is piloting a new initiative to help experienced small, local, and M/WBE businesses access and win municipal and institutional contracts.

The city submits a Consolidated Annual Performance Evaluation Report (CAPER) to the HUD on an annual basis, describing in detail expenditure of CDBG funds over the past fiscal year.

The Community Development Department's Housing Division offers programs and resources to assist interested first-time homebuyers through every step of the homebuying process.

Cambridge promotes bicycling as a healthy, environmentally friendly way of getting around as an important part of the City's efforts to improve mobility and protect our environment. Cambridge is well suited to bicycling and more people are using their bikes every day for commuting, shopping, and general transportation