Word: grahame
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...council majority is lobbying for a state bill, introduced by Graham, that would tighten up rent control by ending the eviction of tenants for condominium conversion...
...rent control, one by phasing it out over the course of a year, the other by ending rent control on individual apartments as their tenants left--called vacancy rent decontrol. "With a 50 per cent annual turnover rate, that is ending rent control," City Councilor and State Rep. Saundra Graham said at the state hearing...
...Graham, one of a five-member council majority opposing the end of rent control, argues that allowing unlimited rents would drive out poor and elderly tenants, making Cambridge a city of wealthy professionals, and would inflate land values creating pressure for large-scale development...
Under current Cambridge law, purchasers of individual units can evict tenants and then let the developers turn the apartments into condos. Graham's bill would close that loophole, which she says has allowed close to 2000 condominium conversions over the last few years. segment of the community was galvanized yesterday "most of Holcombe's grievances were well-founded...
...bill would not do away with condo conversion completely," Graham told the committee, adding "it would simply prohibit evictions for that purpose...