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...margin the councilors then rejected a series of amendments offered by councilor Kevin Crane '72 aimed at watering down the condo law, before voting to move several amendments offered by David Sullivan closer to passage. Sullivan's amendments would allow prosecution even before a condo buyer had moved into his unit...
Before the votes, the councilors listened to dozens of tenants--the majority of whom opposed the motion to halt prosecutions--and almost as many condo owners, who without exception favored the order...
...condominium owner currently being prosecuted told the board she "felt harassed and victimized, not able to eat or sleep." The owner, Carolyn Clinton, added "an awful lot of condo owners are single women in my situation...
...representatives of city tenant groups called the anti-condo law essential to retaining a diverse city. "Will the council be bullied by those, who can only be described as rich squatters?" Christine Baker, a spokesman for the Rent Control Task Force, asked. "Without a guarantee of decent, affordable housing." Cambridge would lose its "uniqueness," Baker said, adding "in the upcoming election we will be at the polls and voting...
...crowd of 250" is the most angry I've seen since at City Hall since rent control was first mentioned 11 years ago." William J. Walsh, an attorney for city developers and an advocate of unlimited condo conversion, said yesterday. "The people are furious; you can't take the rights of home ownership away from tenants," he added...