Concerned MIT graduate students and community members have filed a zoning petition with the City of Cambridge to ensure that MIT builds sufficient graduate student housing, both to support its graduate students as well as mitigate the impact of its massive redevelopment of the Volpe site on the affordable housing crisis in Cambridge and nearby communities.
Please add your name using the form on the right to support our efforts to call on MIT to be a good neighbor and house its graduate students.
Click here for the full text of the cover letter and zoning petition
Supporters
Organizational supporters
A Better Cambridge
Cambridge Residents Alliance
303 Third Street condo owners
Fossil Free MIT
Green Cambridge
MIT Student Activist Coalition (SACO)
Our Revolution Cambridge
Solidarity MIT
Statement from A Better Cambridge:
"We support the MIT graduate student advocacy for more housing construction beyond MIT's current commitment, and we strongly support all current efforts to have MIT house more of its graduate students on campus. Creating more graduate student housing will provided much-needed relief to the overheated Cambridge housing market."
Statement from the Cambridge Residents Alliance:
"The Cambridge Residents Alliance supports MIT grad student advocacy for more housing construction, and we strongly endorse the zoning petition requiring MIT to house 1800 more of its graduate students on campus.
Individual supporters
Aaron Buikema, Graduate student
Adam Hasz, Graduate student, DUSP
Adam Rosenfield, Graduate student
Adam Trebach, Graduate student PhD Student
Aditya Thomas, Graduate student
Ahmed Alawaji, Graduate student
Aicha Ben Dhia, Graduate student
Alaa Mukahhal, Alumni
Albert Gnadt, Graduate student
Albert Lopez, Graduate student
Aleida Braaksma, Postdoctoral Fellow
Alex Bob, Graduate student
Alexandra Ferguson, Staff
Alexandru Bacanu, Graduate student
Alexis LeFort, Graduate student
Aline Ingberman, Graduate student, MSC program
Alison Takemura, Staff, EECS Communication Lab Administrator
Amanda Wang, Alumni
Amber Houghstow, Alumni
Amelia Taylor-Hochberg, Graduate student, DUSP
Andrew Francl, Graduate student
Andy Stuntz, Graduate student
Aneesh Anand, Graduate student
Angie Jo, Graduate student, DUSP
Ankur Chavda, Graduate student
Anna Doty, Alumni
Anne Collin, Graduate student, AeroAstro PhD
Anne Taylor, Community member
Annie Hudson, Graduate student, DUSP
Anson Stewart, Alumni
Anthony Ortiz, Graduate student
Avinash Gannamaneni, Graduate student, Sloan PhD Candidate
Azka Shoaib, Graduate student, DUSP
B Lewis, Other
Barbara Taggart, Community member
Becky Romatoski, Alumni
Bella Purdy, Graduate student
Ben Ewen-Campen, Community member, Harvard Medical School Postdoc
Ben Rosen-Filardo, Undergraduate student
Ben Sherman, Graduate student
Ben Turpin, Graduate student, DUSP
Bjorn Lutjens, Graduate student
Britni Crocker, Graduate student
Brittany Bond, Graduate student, Sloan PhD candidate
Byron Drury, Staff
Caleb Kim, Community member
Carey Dunfey, Alumni
Carla Grobler, Graduate student
Carlos Henriquez, Graduate student
Carmelo Presicce, Alumni
Caroline Jaffe, Graduate student
Caroline Werlang, Graduate student
Charles Epstein, Graduate student
Charles Nolet, Sloan Graduate student
Charlotte Lowey, Graduate student
Charlotte Ong, Graduate student
Chee Kong Lee, Graduate student, MIT PhD Candidate
Chris Smith, Graduate student, DUSP PhD candidate
Chris Southwick, Alumni
Christina Curlette, Alumni
Christopher Weaver, Graduate student
Claudia Majetich, Community member MIT retiree
Colin Gray, Graduate student
Connner Kummerlowe, Graduate student
Cory Smith, Graduate student
Cynthia Lo, Undergraduate student
Dalia Leibowitz, Graduate student
Dan Novy, Graduate student, Media Lab Research Assistant
Daniel Curtis, Graduate student, Nuclear Science and Engineering PhD Candidate
Daniel Kim, Graduate student
Daniella Maamari, Graduate student
Daniil Kitchaev, Graduate student
Danya Littlefield, Graduate student, DUSP
David Tisel, Graduate student, DUSP
Deedee Kim, Graduate student
Deepa Ramaswamy, Graduate student
Demi Fang, Graduate student
Derek Etkin, Community member
Derek Hans, Graduate student
Diana Bell, Alumni
Dina El-Zanfaly, Graduate student
doug mcpherson, Graduate student
Elise Bickford, Undergraduate student
eliyahu keller, Graduate student, Architecture
Elizabeth Agresta, Staff, The MIT Press Manuscript Workflow Assistant
Elizabeth Dekeyser, Graduate student
Emiko Zumbro, Graduate student
Emily Salvador, Graduate student, Media Lab Research Assistant
Enrique Fernandez, Graduate student, CSAIL & AeroAstro PhD Student
Eric Kilpatrick, Community member
Erik-Logan Hughes, Graduate student
Erina Keefe, Graduate student
Ethan Lee, Graduate student
Eugene Sohn, Graduate student
Evan Spetrini, Graduate student
Eytan Gross, Graduate student, MST
Fay Strongin, Alumni
Fay Strongin, Alumni
Fiona Chen, Undergraduate student
Flora Su, Graduate student
Frank Solomon, Faculty, Biology Professor
Frank Yaul, Alumni
Fred Salvucci, Senior Lecturer, CEE/DUSP
Gabriel Schwartz, Community member
Gabriel Wolofsky, Graduate student, MST/DUSP
Garima Sharma, Graduate student
Gianna Garza, Undergraduate student
Gonzalo Ortega, Graduate student
Haines Kit, Undergraduate student
Haizheng Zhang, Graduate student, CEE PhD candidate
Haley Meisenholder, Graduate student, DUSP
Hannah Eagleson, Spouse of recent PhD graduate
Hannah Teicher, Graduate student, DUSP PhD Candidate
Huma Gupta, Graduate student, Course 4 PhD Candidate
Iheb Guermazi, Graduate student
Irmak Turan, Graduate student
Isabel Hemerly Viegas de Lima, Graduate student
Jackson Bauer, Graduate student
Jackson Davidow, Graduate student
Jacob Kohn, Graduate student, DUSP
Janille Maragh, Graduate student
Jason Liu, Graduate student
Jeff Liu, Graduate student, Center for Computational Engineering, PhD candidate
jeffrey petrucelly, Community member
Jenn Myers, Graduate student, Sloan PhD Student
Jennifer Schloss, Graduate student
Jeremy Majerovitz, Graduate student
Jim Campen, Community member
Joanne Wong, Graduate student
Joel Lamere, Faculty, Assistant Professor in Architecture
Joel Tay, Graduate student
Joel Wool, Community member
Johanna Greenspan-Johnston, Graduate student, DUSP
John Racine, Community member
John Tauber, Graduate student
Jon Gauthier, Graduate student
Jonathan Behrens, Graduate student
Jonathan Hasoloan, Graduate student, DUSP
Jonathan Huggins, Graduate student
Jonathan King, Faculty, Biology Professor
Jonathan Tarleton, Graduate student
Joseph Ferreira, Faculty, DUSP Professor
Joseph Swerdlin, Graduate student
Joshua Hartshorne, Alumni, Boston College Assistant Professor
Joshua Hester, Graduate student
Josue Lopez, Graduate student, EECS, MIT Presidential and NSF Fellow
Juan Alvarez, Alumni, Harvard University Postdoc
Juan Constain, Graduate student, MIT CoLab Research Assistant
Juan Pablo Duarte Pardo, Graduate student
Justin Montgomery, Graduate student
Kaitlin Terry, Graduate student
Karim Gadelrab, Graduate student
Katharine Greco, Graduate student
Kathy Watkins, Community member, Cambridge Residents Alliance
Kelly Blynn, Graduate student, DUSP/MST
Kelly Main, Graduate student, DUSP
Kevin Richardson, Graduate student
Kimberly Scott, Graduate student, Brain & Cognitive Sciences
Kingshuk Dasadhikari, Graduate student
Lauren Kapsalakis, Graduate student
Lauren Yates, Graduate student
Lawrence Barriner II, DUSP Alumni, Program Director
Leonardi Aray, Community member, Architect/Planner
Lev Kendrick, Undergraduate student
Leyla Isik, Alumni
Liang Yu, Graduate student
Lillian Jacobson, Alumni
Lily Bui, Graduate student
Louise Parker, Community member, Our Revolution Cambridge Organizer
Ludwig Schmidt, Graduate student
Lukas Murmann, Graduate student Graduate Student
Luke Mich, Alumni, Planner
Madeleine Sutherland, Graduate student
Madeline Wong, Graduate student
Maia Woluchem, Graduate student, DUSP
Marcia Ross, Other
Mario Giampieri, Graduate student, DUSP
Mary McDavitt, Staff, MIT-CSAIL Sr. Admin Asst.
Marzyeh Ghassemi, Alumni
Matthew Guthmiller, Undergraduate student
Maya Abood, Alumni
Maya Andrieux, Graduate student, 3rd year Architecture HTC PhD
Mel King, Senior Lecturer Emeritus, DUSP
Micah Smith, Graduate student, MIT EECS, PhD Student
Michael Coulombe, Graduate student
Michael DeMarco, Graduate student
Michael Specter, Graduate student EECS
Mihr Bhosale, Graduate student, DUSP MST Student
Mike Connolly, Community member, Cambridge and Somerville State Representative
Mohammad Qasim, Graduate student, MIT PhD student
Morissa Reilly, Graduate student, DUSP
Nadiia Chepurko, Graduate student
Nasser Rabbat, Faculty, Architecture Professor
Nicholas Kelly, Graduate student, DUSP PhD
Nicola Rinaldi, Alumni, MIT Project Manager
Olivia Fong, Community member
Othmane Benkirane, Graduate student
Otis Reid, Graduate student
Paige Boehmcke, Graduate student
Patrick Brown, Staff
Patrick Healy Moran, Graduate student, Department of Physics
Paul Mayencourt, Graduate student
Peggy Barnes Lenart, Community member
Peter Damrosch, Graduate student, DUSP
Peter Su, Graduate student
Pierre Cuvilliers, Graduate student
Piotr Suwara, Graduate student
Pranam Chatterjee, Graduate student, Media Lab
Prashant Vasudevan, Graduate student
R'mani Haulcy, Graduate student
Rachel Goor, Alumni
Rachel Holladay, Graduate student
Rachel Kurchin, Graduate student
Raymond Kluender, Graduate student
Rebecca S Kim, Graduate student, Chemistry Department
Rebecca Yadegar, Staff
Ricardo Baptista, Graduate student
Robin Elliott, Graduate student MIT
Ru Mehendale, Graduate student, DUSP/CEE
Ryan Hill, Graduate student, Economics
Sam Barnard, Graduate student
Sam Elder, Graduate student
Samantha Zyontz, Graduate student
Sanjay Kumar, Graduate student
Sara Li, Graduate student
Sarah Hensley, Graduate student
Saviz Mowlavi, Graduate student
Scott Gilman, Graduate student, DUSP
Scott Middleton, Graduate student, DUSP/MST
Scott Penman, Graduate student, SMArchS DCG
Scott Viteri, Undergraduate student Course 6
Sean Ballinger, Graduate student, MIT Nuclear Science and Engineering
Sean McFarland, Bioengineering postdoc
Sean McFarland, Community member, Boston Children's Hospital Postdoctoral Fellow
Sebastian Garza, Alumni
Sera Tolgay, Graduate student
Seung Ki Kwak, Graduate student
Shachar Itzhaky, Other
Skylar Deckoff-Jones, Graduate student
Stephen Chou, Graduate student
Steve Pomeroy, Community member
Steven Nutter, Community member, Green Cambridge Executive Director
Supratim Das, Graduate student
Talia Fox, Graduate student
Tessa Buono, Graduate student, DUSP
Thomas Connors, Community member
Thomas Matarazzo, Postdoc
Tina Wang, Undergraduate student
Tiziana Smith, Graduate student
Vanessa Conzon, Graduate student
Victoria Lewis, Community member
Weishun Zhong, Graduate student
Wenjie Ji, Graduate student
Will Kimball, Graduate student, Sloan PhD Student
William Leiserson, Graduate student, CSAIL Course 6
William Moses, Graduate student, CSAIL PhD Student
Xiang Li, Other
Xio Alvarez, Graduate student
Yanisa Techagumthorn, Undergraduate student
Yaseen Kareem, MIT SPURS Fellow
Yonatan Belinkov, Graduate student
Yonglong Tian, Graduate student
Youssef Medhat, Graduate student, MST
Zach Needell, Graduate student
zhujing Zhang, Graduate student
Zi Wang, Graduate student MIT EECS
Zoe Mueller, Graduate student