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...experiences of Vivaldo Meneses, a welder and iron craftsman who came to Cambridge five years ago, illustrate the housing problems the Portuguese immigrants face in Cambridge. "We paid a lot of money in rent for a junk house when we first came here," Meneses recalls. "The landlord wanted to sell the house so he didn't want to do anything to it. I paid $110 a month and there was no good electricity or heat in the apartment. When I repaired the house myself, the landlord charged more rent. He said the taxes went up. Most of the Portuguese people...
...apartment ourselves--the painting, the papering, everything. After we did, the landlord raised the rent. I asked myself, Is this the price we must pay for wanting to live clean and in good conditions?" Costa says...
Last Thursday night, Estelle Nigron of 694 Beck Street came into my political club to see if I could do anything to get the hot water turned on in her building. She told me she had called the landlord on numerous occasions without getting any response. I told her I would do what I could, and that she should come and see me the next day at my church...
Friday morning I got on the phone to Larry Casanova, a Puerto Rican lawyer in my club whom I recently placed in Mayor Beame's office as a special assistant. Mr. Casanova heard the problem and reacted quickly. He called the landlord and told him he would send a building inspector to Mrs. Negron's apartment if the hot water was not turned on within the day. Two hours after Mr. Casanova's phone call, Mrs. Negron came to the parish to report that she now had hot water...
...campaign, Mr. Beame made it clear that he would continue to support rent control. In fact, he recently has joined with us in the City Council in supporting a 4 per cent rent rollback. If Beame is a captive of the landlords, I wonder why his housing policies have been sharply criticized by Edward Sulzberger, the head of the city landlord's organization, both during the campaign and since his election...