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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...
...Janet Mac Millan, a representative of the Cambridge Tenants Union, said that HUD has the power to stop the evictions, "but nobody's interested in doing anything...
...HUD is required to approve any rent hikes in the building and has the power to postpone any evictions until the agency conducts an investigation, according to Graham...
...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...