Word: controlling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Members of the anti-rent control Small Property Owners' Association (SPOA) said yesterday they planned to picket Harvard to protest the involvement of law students in tenant advocacy cases...
SPOA Co-Chair John F. Natale said that his group resents what it sees as "one-sided" activities by Students for Public Interest Law (SPIL) in cases before the city's Rent Control Board. SPIL, a part of the Law School's clinical studies program, provides free legal aid to tenants in many cases but does not represent landlords...
...Sally Ackerman-Eaton, a former member of the Rent Control Board, said that SPIL's policies are fundamentally biased...
...said SPIL's goal is not to "be unfair to owners or skew the system in favor of tenants," but to "help the rent control system go smoothly...
...exception that a landlord is a person who cannot afford representation," Dee said. "And even a small landlord has experience going down to the Rent Control Board. A tenant is less likely to have experience in that...