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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...
...city's elite dwell in condominiums, and it is at least possible that out of a sense of identification, they will support the right of others to purchase their apartments, a right denied under existing city legislation designed to protect the city's rental housing stock. A test of condo owner sentiments will be support for Mary Allen Wilkes in the November election. A former CCA member, Wilkes now is billed as the "condo candidate," and has spoken out in favor of removing restrictions on the right of tenants to buy their apartments. Though she is given little chance...
...meaningless. The pressure on the city's housing market is great enough that within a decade, most forecasters conclude, the bulk of city apartments would have become condominiums. Rents might still be controlled, but very few people would be paying them. And so the dispute over condo conversion seems the likeliest battleground for tenants and developers to fight it out. For the ideological reasons outlined above, large parts of the traditional CCA constituency may become supporters of the developers; if they do, the pressures on CCA candidates may become enormous. The demands of tenant activists will have to be compromised...
...stay radical; they're looking out for themselves. Even the bridges between the two groups are tenuous. Though David Sullivan led all CCA candidates at the polls two years ago, there were more than a few people accusing him of going to extremes when he tried to tighten the condo restrictions this spring...