Word: condo
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...months. condo conversion had been the burning issue at city council. It may have been the deciding factor in denying city liberals a fifth seat on the council in last month's elections. And the battle finally reached a climax last Monday night, when the council voted not to allow tenants in the two buildings to purchase their homes as condominiums...
...Currently, developers are suing the city in an effort to overturn the ordinance. If the amendment exempting two buildings was ever passed, surely any sensible judge would be tempted to throw the entire law out the window as a gross violation of equal protection. And if that happens, the condo gold rush will be on again and every tenant in the city will once more live in fear. The law protects all tenants too poor to buy their own apartments, and guarantees that there will be rental housing in the city in the years to come. No single statute, save...
...they even fly coke in from a ship in one of those remote-controlled toy planes and land it on a bayshore condo...
...admit it publicly, tenants and landlords may be hoping for just the sort of outcome they usually oppose. Tenants rights activists like David Sullivan understand that the loss of two buildings could help save many more by defusing the situation (the two buildings also contributed much of the vaunted "condo vote" in this month's city elections...
...traditional friends of landlords may actually be wishing that the conversion permits are denied: that action could create a cause celebre, and perhaps generate enough furor to keep the condo issue alive and perhaps overturn the entire ordinance...