Word: cavellini
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...William Cavellini has been active in rent board cases for about eight years. Although he does not hold a law degree. Cavellini has spent most of his time before the board as an advocate for other tenants...
Even at meetings chaired by past rent board chairman. "The atmosphere was never cordial," Cavellini says. But there were other chairmen Callaghan and who had "less of a short face." With previous chairmen, Cavellini says that both tenant and landlords "got more respect." "There is a certain impatience," he says of Callaghan, pausing to explain that he "doesn't want to make any personal attacks." But he says. "The chairman sets a tone." "Previous boards have been more courteous and treated both adversial parties with move respect...
...Cavellini says that especially when the board decides a case by consensus, "a lot of times the tenants and landlords have to ask what happened." "When you do things by mumbling," he says, "a lot of people don't know what's happening." "It's an argument in almost any activity in our society that being more open and more accessible is being more equitable and tairer...
...William Cavellini, a member of the Rent Control Task Force and of the Simplex Steering Committee, said that the tenants want more than the "token" unanimous vote supporting rent control given recently by the city council...
...talking about enforcing the law as it exists and strengthening it," Cavellini said...