Word: cohn
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Cohn explained that Harvard is one of the few Cambridge landlords that can afford the major expenditures needed to reduce fuel consumption. Turk responded that "major renovations" would mean increased rents and that Harvard could cut fuel costs simply by eliminating waste, performing routine maintenance, and obtaining quantity discounts on fuel. These measures, Turk said, had been indicated by the HTU survey and were likely to generatelower rents for Harvard tenants. But Cohn, himself a landlord and the only rent board member to serve since the agency's inception, was not convinced...
Rubbing his eyes and leaning away from the audience of University tenants. Cohn repeated that as occupants of Harvard housing. "You should consider yourselves very fortunate...
Because the rent board maintains no systematic record of case precedent. Cohn, the only member who has served since the beginning of rent control, "is the repository of a lot of information on how the board works." "It falls to Cohn to say, 'Oh, yeah. I remember that,'" Turk explains. "His memory can be selective and it gives him even more power. There should be some way of allowing some one who's fresh to know what's going...
...explain to the parties what's going on "Weissberg explains that because of the lack of a volume of case precedents "for someone in there [at the rent board] for the first time there is no way to get a handle on it. It's not unusual for Fred Cohn to lean back and recall" precedents she says, adding that his status as the most senior board member "puts the parties at an incredible disadvantage. There's no way I can say. 'No, that's not true...
Although Walsh says rent board members are "extremely rude" to landlords and tenants, he contends that the major problem with the rent board is the members "political leanings. "Cohn" wants to make sure the CCA stays in effective control of the rent board "in order to perpetuate things." Walsh says, adding that neither the landlord nor tenant representatives are typical of the groups they serve. According to Walsh Cohn does not under stand the average landlord. He's a dreamer in a world where reality" outweighs any respect for theory. And Walsh says that if you tell me Joel Johnson...