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...year-old Cambridge native and former resident of public housing emphasizes that "I'm not headstrong on any issue," including opposition to controls on condominium conversion. "If it turns out that poor and elderly are getting thrown out" because of condominium development, "I could be flexible," he says...
...Condominium voters, despite their economic status (or perhaps because of it) voted overwhelmingly for the Independents in the number two, three, four and five places on their ballots. "The question was how mad they were," one local politician said, reasoning that if they were only fairly angry they would vote for Wilkes number one and then return to the liberal fold. But it turned out that they were really, really mad, furious in fact. And it turned out that they robbed the CCA of its best chance for a majority in years...
Wolf, who totalled more than 5000 votes in her run for school committee two years ago won 1286 votes yesterday, followed by first-time candidate Mary Allen Wilkes, who won 1261 votes with a campaign aimed at condominium owners, and Wendy Abt, who received only 1024 votes despite one of the city's costliest and most intense campaigns...
Running especially well in precincts where condominium conversion has become an issue, Wilkes may have laid the foundation for another, more successful council bid two years hence...
There is a real possibility gentrification--caused by the rapid displacement of low- and moderate-income apartment dwellers by the wealthier owners of condominiums--could irrevocably change Cambridge. The city's tight restrictions on condominium conversion are secure only by a single vote on the city council; if they are overruled as a result of the election, large parts of this city will go on, like Beacon Hill, to become home only to the fashionably rich...