Word: condo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...outcome of tomorrow's election could be the preface to a softening in the stand of the Cambridge Civic Association (CCA), which currently strongly supports rent control and limitations on condominium conversion. If Mary Allen Wilkes, the "condo candidate," runs well or even wins, or if she loses and her votes transfer to Wendy Abt, the CCA candidate viewed as most flexible on housing issues, change will very definitely...
...least 2000 Cambridge apartments have been converted to condominiums in recent years. What the Wilkes and Abt vote could show is that condo owners have emerged as a distinct political bloc in this city. Two years ago it appeared they hadn't, no candidate appealed directly to them, and none benefited from their support. This year, though, Wilkes identified herself from the start as a liberal, except on housing issues, where she favors the right of some tenants to buy their own apartments as condominiums and is at strongest equivocal in her support of rent control...
...votes; on more particular enforcement questions, though, she may not be as tough. But what Abt will actually do is less important than what voters think she will do. She seems to be commanding support from many on the assumption that her commitment to rent control and condo limits are soft; a large transfer vote from Wilkes to Abt would indicate just that...
Russell, who said he collected most of his money at fundraisers, reported taking in $6182 and paying out $5510. Wilkes, who had billed herself as the condo candidate, had raised $5928 and spent $5533. Many of her contributions came from residents of buildings like her 1572 Mass Ave home that have seen heated battles over condominium conversion...
With only two weeks remaining before city-wide elections, the council by a 5-4 margin denied the request of 26 tenants-turned-condo-owners seeking an exemption from a Cambridge ordinance prohibiting the conversion of rent-controlled apartments to condominiums...