This staff editorial solely represents the majority view of The Crimson Editorial Board. As temperatures in the Northeast remain unforgiving and Cambridge residents bundle up, need is on the rise among the cityâs homeless population â and the situation is only worsened by the pressure to de-densify shelters during the pandemic. Fortunately, the city has finally heard and listened to the oft-ignored calls of the people living on its frigid streets: Prompted by local organizers, including Harvard student activists, the Cambridge City Council voted earlier this month to rent non-congregate homeless shelter space from the New England School of English.