Eight homeless families will be forced to relocate Oct. 31 with the shutting of two shelters, partially the result of being excluded from a state contract after funding cuts.
Vines strangle the walls and roofs are buckling at properties that nurtured industries, survived gang takeovers and housed waves of Irish, Italian and Brazilian immigrants.
After almost a decade of letting a strong Kendall Square “kind of run itself,” there’s a troubled environment and calls for collaboration with Cambridge City Hall.