Support Housing and Education Opportunities at Rindge Commons!

Just-A-Start, a Cambridge housing and education nonprofit, is proposing to add new affordable apartments and a workforce training center to the Rindge Tower Apartments community at 402 Rindge Ave. Rindge Commons will bring together a state-of-the-art education and job training center, 101 affordable apartments, and services available to the entire neighborhood.

We are requesting a comprehensive permit from the City of Cambridge's Zoning Board to move the project forward. And you can make a real difference – public support significantly improves the project's chance of success.

Please help create more housing, education, and career opportunities in our community by signing this petition!

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Why Rindge Commons?

Cambridge is a thriving city with many resources, but opportunities for family-sustaining work, quality education, and affordable homes have not been accessible to all residents. As a nonprofit community development corporation, Just-A-Start is focused on creating livable, vibrant communities guided by shared needs.

Together we can:

• Build an integrated training center to connect more residents with quality jobs, strengthening and expanding JAS's YouthBuild program and Biomedical and Information Technology Careers Programs
• Create 101 new apartments, helping more families to live affordably in Cambridge
• Offer affordable childcare to this growing neighborhood with the inclusion of a pre-Kindergarten program
• Provide residents, neighbors, and community groups with new public meeting space

Access to housing that a wide range of people can afford is a key ingredient in a healthy, vibrant community. Quality, stable housing is linked to higher student achievement, better health and well-being outcomes, and increased economic mobility. Our community is healthier and stronger when people's homes, like Rindge Commons, are located near their jobs, schools, parks, bike paths, public transit, and grocery stores.

Meanwhile, Rindge Commons will also provide opportunities for no-cost community education and career advancement. A new, state-of-the-art training center will strengthen and expand Just-A-Start's workforce development programs that serve youth and adults from Cambridge and nearby communities. These tuition-free programs help ensure that all people, from teens earning a high school credential to adult learners making a career change, have the skills and resources necessary to pursue education, successfully enter a competitive job market, and develop upward career mobility.

Want to learn more?

To stay updated on plans for Rindge Commons, please visit www.RindgeCommons.org.

For more information about Just-A-Start, please visit www.justastart.org.

Thank you for your support!