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Meeting Wednesday with groups representing tenants at the Rindge Towers housing project, officials of the Boston office of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) said they were "shocked" to hear complaints about the possible illegality of the management's recent evictions and rent increases...
Linda Conroy, special assistant to the area manager of HUD, said that representatives of the Federal Management Company, which operates the housing project for the federal government, had told them in a meeting a week earlier that eviction proceedings against more than 50 tenants were "strong but justified measures to evict those who were not paying rent...
...after City Councillors David E. Sullivan and Saundra Graham charged Wednesday that the owner's actions might possibly run counter to state law and HUD regulations. HUD representatives agreed to investigate the issue once tenants file their grievances in a formal written report...
Sullivan said that the fact that HUD found the tenant-management conflict surprising "shows that they haven't been talking very much to the tenants this year." "He added that he was" not pleased by the hands attitude of HUD in these matters...
...HUD hasn't fulfilled its duties in this case," said Councilor David E. Sullivan. "They couldn't care less about the tenants, only about getting their investment back from the buildings," he added.Rindge Towers where tenants and legal aid authorities say racially-motivated evictions have been taking place since December...