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...Cambridge Tenant Organizing Committee (CTOC) will discuss strategies for an organized tenant protest against the 3.1 per cent rent increase approved by the Cambridge Rent Control Board last month, at a public meeting January...
Bill J. Leary, office manager of the CTOC, said yesterday that several plans of action will be proposed at the meeting, including a general tenants' rent strike or a refusal to pay the increase...
Leary said the CTOC opposes the rent increase because it places the burden of inflation on the tenants and not on the landlords...
...CTOC has a kind of looking-backwards, reactionary view. In 1910, the 30 per cent of the work force that was in agriculture started shifting into manufacturing, and there was a lot of resistance to it," Milne says. "The same type of thing is happening in industry today, and it's useless for the CTOC to oppose...
Even more galling to the CTOC, however, is MIT's strong desire for middle-and upper-income housing in Kendall Square. The CTOC argues that such housing, which is too expensive for most blue collar workers, will cause a "ripple effect" that will raise real estate costs in nearby working class neighborhoods even faster than they are rising...