The panel, moderated by MIT's Department of Urban Studies and Planning Professor Balakrishnan Rajagopal, will explore issues of housing, gentrification, and displacement in Cambridge. Members of the Cambridge Residents Alliance (CRA) will present their experiences and findings on evolving housing dynamics as Cambridge undergoes redevelopment on and around its university campuses and across its neighborhoods. The panel will also feature housing rights activists working in the Greater Boston area to discuss the effects they see in their neighborhoods and at the metropolitan scale. The event aims to make space for dialogue about both the larger political-economic forces shaping the present and future of housing in Cambridge, as well as MIT’s role and responsibilities around these issues. 

This event is co-sponsored with the MIT Displacement Research & Action Network (DRAN).