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...program "is not a vehicle for condo conversion gentrification," Rosenberg said yesterday, but an attempt to insure the "continued liveability" of low-income housing by correcting code violations and structural defects...
Polednak last year challenged the rent board in Middlesex's Third District Court, charging that the city agency was unfairly applying a 1979 ordinance limiting condo conversion. The rent board has interpreted the ordinance to require removal permits only of tenants who moved into their units after the law was approved...
Nixon finding last Wednesday concluded part of the rent board's appeal of Sherman's decision, which rent board members and tenant activists feared would set a precedent for potential condo owners to by pass the city agency through civil lawsuits...
City Councilor David E. Sullivan who wrote the condo conversion codes, yesterday called Nixon's decision "a substantial victory." He said that "another loophole has been closed in the developers efforts to get around the ordinance...
...current residents out and the wealthier residents--who can pay higher rents or higher condominium prices--in. And there's no doubt that many landlords are unscrupulous enough to use arson to chase residents out. An extreme instance of such tactics was the 1979-80 string of condo conversions in already-high-rent areas, which was apparently responsible for a fourfold increase in Back Bay's arson rate, scaring off many renters who had resisted conversion...