A woman walks by the Washington Elms Housing Development in Cambridge, which sits next to high-rise towers in Kendall Square.John Tlumacki/Globe Staff Cambridge is set to become the second city in Massachusetts to give out no-strings-attached money to its poorest residents in an 18-month pilot program that will begin in August.
Mayor Sumbul Siddiqui is announcing Thursday that the city, through a public-private partnership, has raised $1.5 million for an initiative that gives out $500 a month to 120 households headed by a lone caretaker, such as a single mother. Last November the city of Chelsea launched a similar program […]
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