Burhan Azeem, Cambridge City Councillor
@realBurhanAzeem
Fighting for Housing & Transit | @MIT Alum @AbundantHomesMA Board
As a longtime humanitarian who has battled famines and hunger crises, I fear that starvation in Gaza has now passed the tipping point and we are going to see mass-scale starvation mortality. A thread on famine momentum, famine response, and what it means for Gaza today.
Doctors and health officials report wave of hunger deaths in Gaza on.ft.com/46iUoK6
Took a 3 day break from fundraising to attend my sisters wedding 🎉🎉 I’m so happy for her and she really married such a wonderful, calm, kind man. Now we’re back to you’re regularly scheduled call time, till we hit 50k!
We're over 10k with 99 small donors. 20.5% of the way there!
"I don’t care how much you love working people. They can’t afford a house because all the rules in your state make it prohibitive to build." @BarackObama cnn.com/2025/07/14/pol…
We’re starting day 3 of fundraising and call time. At 18.5% of the goal! It’s hard spending so much time on fundraising but it’s an important part of the job. Bit by bit, we’ll surely get to 100%
5 more donations to close the night! That gets us to a bit over $8k. 2 days in, 150 phone calls later and we're about 16% of the way to the fundraising goal
$3 away from reaching 7,500 and 15% of our goal!
Burhan Azeem is one of the best local elected officials in the country. An incredible leader on housing, transit, and more---please throw him a donation in the link below!
I’m incredibly proud of the work we’ve done this term. Our “Paris-style” reforms have made headlines, from The Economist to The Daily Show. Many people to me that for the first time they have real hope they can stay in the city they love. But big wins come with big pushback. Our…
A pleasure to meet, Councillor @burhanazeem.bsky.social ! Always great to chat on policies to improve the city 🌟