He says the city must tailor its funding so that working people can afford market rents.
"We missed a lot of opportunities at times when land was cheap," he says. "Now we're in an uphill struggle."
To address the housing crisis, he says the city can use creative funding strategies, home ownership programs, work with the private sector and push its universities, including Harvard, to house their own graduate students.
Galluccio prides himself on his one-on-one work with constituents, and says that being Cambridge's youngest mayor in decades will aid him in trying to improve public education for all students.
"That gives me an opportunity to connect with the young people in the city," he says.
The Road Ahead
"Maybe there's a little too much campaigning and behind-the-scenes [negotiating]," Maher says. "We live in a civil society, and we should be able to resolve these things quicker."
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