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...CTOC, founded in 1970 when rent controls were introduced in Cambridge, considers its overriding goals to be "to organize tenants and to fight for decent housing at rents that tenants can afford to pay." In its statement of principles, CTOC also says: "We see our fight as part of a fundamental struggle among classes in society, not as an isolated fight...
DURING THE intervening week, while groups like Hard Times, the Cambridge Tenants Organizing Committee (CTOC), and Fight Back organized, the council factions lined up on the issue...
Tenant groups admit that control does not solve the housing problem. CTOC holds that the solution to housing problems is the abolition of private property. CTOC spokesmen argue that control lowers rents for some tenants, and makes it harder for landlords to evict residents. Controls are also useful, according to CTOC, as a catalyst in tenant organization for more basic reform...
...Cambridge Tenants Organizing Committee (CTOC) fights for rent control because it represents a concession that the government has given us in response to our organizing efforts. It gives tenants certain tools they can use to build more organizations. The eviction process is made longer and more difficult for landlords, and rent increases take longer and may be prevented if the right pressures are applied to the rent control authority...
...CTOC offices are at 595 Mass...