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During the past term four councilors--members of the Cambridge Civic Association CCA)--publicly pledged themselves to defending rent control while four others--members of the Independent slate--have consistently voted against rent control and in favor of exemptions such as those requested by the Linnaean and Washington tenants...
...least one more election, the tenuous coalition between liberal and radical, between the CCA and the' tenants, seems likely to last. But it is hard not to look at what happened to Wendy Abt and conclude that a deep rift between the two groups is possible, and that Cambridge politics--traditionally polarized between neighborhood-oriented Independents and the CCA--could become split up among the Independents, the CCA and the tenants...
...sense of identification, they will support the right of others to purchase their apartments, a right denied under existing city legislation designed to protect the city's rental housing stock. A test of condo owner sentiments will be support for Mary Allen Wilkes in the November election. A former CCA member, Wilkes now is billed as the "condo candidate," and has spoken out in favor of removing restrictions on the right of tenants to buy their apartments. Though she is given little chance of winning a seat at this time, her vote total will be important, and if she does...
...city apartments would have become condominiums. Rents might still be controlled, but very few people would be paying them. And so the dispute over condo conversion seems the likeliest battleground for tenants and developers to fight it out. For the ideological reasons outlined above, large parts of the traditional CCA constituency may become supporters of the developers; if they do, the pressures on CCA candidates may become enormous. The demands of tenant activists will have to be compromised with the demands of the moderate elite for a "reasoned approach" a la Abt. The pulling from both sides could, in future...
After all, there are few ties besides ideology that bind the CCA and the leftist tenant movement. One is predominantly rich and white; the other includes many lower and middle income residents, and many Blacks and Hispanics. One is fashionable; the other isn't. (Abt, dressed to the nines, looked distinctly out of place amid the blue jeans that dominated the tenant forum.) And when the CCA is liberal, it is because its members are looking out for others. The tenants will stay radical; they're looking out for themselves. Even the bridges between the two groups are tenuous. Though...