Word: landlordism
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Seven residents of two multi-story apartment buildings on the corner of Harvard and Trowbridge Streets charged their landlord of harassment at a Cambridge City Council meeting yesterday...
...tenants alleged that noise from the construction commissioned by the landlord for the backyard made living in the apartments unbearable. Residents also asserted that common living spaces were "not cleaned...
City Councillor Jonathan S. Myers, who said he had received numerous calls from the tenants, said that the issue was not one of conflict between landlord and tenant but "a matter of basic human decency...
...construction, which involved clearing the backyard of trees and grass and replacing it with gravel and pavement, was one of many projects in the past three months the landlord authorized. Many of the tenants believe that the construction is an attempt to force old tenants to leave in order to find new tenants willing to pay higher rent...
...video prepared by the city rent control board showed four rent-controlled properties in East Cambridge, described their needs for renovation, and explored whether passing on the costs of renovation to the tenants would be prohibitively expensive or difficult for the landlord or for the tenant...