This City Councilor Is Making Cambridge Safer and More Affordable

Meet Burhan Azeem, a city councilor in Cambridge, Massachusetts. A graduate of MIT, he’s the youngest councilor in the city’s history and has a special focus on housing affordability and street safety.

Burhan has successfully expanded zoning for affordable housing, removed parking minimums, and helped build bike lanes throughout the city. He also helped found a nonprofit that impacts housing policy on the state level. Today, he and Tiffany sit down to discuss how he got to this point and what he’s working on next.

ADDITIONAL SHOW NOTES

• Local Recommendations:

  • Café 1369

  • Kendall Rooftop Garden

  • Greenline Bike Path

• Burhan Azeem (site)

• Tiffany Owens Reed (Instagram)

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