Word: condo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Steering Committee, who sports a Wilkes button on his lapel. The message, he adds, is that the CCA has been "inflexible" on housing issues. And as Abt wrote in her statement to tenants, "without better data, it is irresponsible to dismiss alternatives and to insist on Rent Control and condo controls in exactly their current forms...
...searchers after that middle ground may be many. There are the condo owners, who though secure in their homes may feel a psychological identification with others trying to circumvent the regulations limiting such purchases. There are the tenants who want to buy their own homes. There is that, perhaps large, segment of the population that can be persuaded that a "rational, ordered" approach is the best way to deal with any problem. An earlier test of the size of this group--the can-didacies backed in 1979 by a group of self-proclaimed moderates, the Concerned Cambridge Citizens--failed because...
...Such attention most likely will exacerbate a trend seen in recent months--the increasing disenchantment of many, even in the traditional CCA coalition, with "extreme stands" on housing issues. The question first arose when David Sullivan last spring tried to add new teeth to the anti-condo ordinance. Grumblings about "going too far" were soon heard, and the furor that surrounded attempts to prosecute some condo purchasers were effective weapons not only for Independent slate councilors but also for Wilkes. Though councilor Saundra Graham stuck staunchly behind Sullivan, West Cambridge representatives of the traditional CCA like Francis H. Duehay...
...appears, though, that the momentum may have turned. A strong challenge by "condo candidate" Wilkes may well steal CCA votes votes; the Independents have waged a more unified slate campaign than in past years; and internal divisions within the CCA have taken their toll. The chance for the elusive fifth seat that would give the CCA control of city politics is slimmer now than it was a few months ago, but is it not an impossibility...
...most controversial stance its members have taken in recent years was supporting a strong ban on condominium conversion, which had been quickly reducing Cambridge's rental housing stock. Many tenants wishing to buy their own units--and many developers wishing to buy units--have been angered by the anti-condo stand. Much of that feeling has coalesced behind the candidacy of Mary Allen Wilkes, a condominium owner in a building that was the scene of a nasty battle over illegal conversions earlier this year. Wilkes, a former CCA member, may take others like her away from the coalition. Should...