Word: condo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...chance--the very off chance--exists that enough Independent votes will transfer to elect both Clinton and Fantini. But if the trends of the last few years are any indication, the old Cambridge these men represent is fading (in large part, ironically, through condo conversion and other policies they support). The conservatives will be hard pressed to increase their total, though a Wilkes victory might introduce a new alignment more to their liking...
...from the often inefficient and nearly always painfully slow operation of the rent control board, which oversees the entire system and acts as a final judge in all disputes between tenants and landlords. Even the strongest supporters of rent control--including incumbent councilor David Sullivan, who drafted the primary condo control legislation--agree that rent control board procedures should be streamlined...
...Condo Conversion...
These anti-condominium ordinances have proven the most controversial during the last few years because they have trapped many tenants in a seemingly no-win situation because the latest set of city codes forbid tenants-turned-condo owners from residing in their homes without special removal permits...
These tenants caught in the middle, high-income condominium owners, and developers who have been shut out of potential windfalls by the anti-condo ordinances form a powerful voting block which has CCA members running harder than ever to retain their council seats...