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Members of Cambridge's Eviction Free Zone protested high rents yesterday in front of the home of a local landlord who is attempting to evict three Cambridge residents...
Even the most stonehearted landlord might have shed a tear or two when Bayan Jamay somberly led her final dance class last Tuesday night. Jamay had been a teacher at the Dancers' Group studio in San Francisco's Mission District for 22 years, long enough to watch her pupils raise children of their own. "This is like a family," said Jamay, dressed in black and weeping with a student on the stairwell. "I never dreamed I would have to stop teaching here...
KEEPING TABS Letting the rent go this month? That could cost you down the road. Rentport Inc. is collecting data from landlords on the timeliness of their tenants. While most are diligent about making their credit-card and car-lease payments on time, an estimated 5% slide on their rent checks, knowing it won't affect their credit rating. But now all three major credit-reporting agencies will be provided with this information. Rentport says tenants who pay their rent on time will improve their credit history. Certainly, using the data to avoid renting to potential deadbeats will help...
...chosen in a surprisingly expeditious impaneling Monday. Since the government is the defendant, an actual jury was legally unnecessary but helpful in making it look as if justice is served (the alternative is a federal judge). A gym teacher, an electrician, a homemaker, an accountant, a secretary, a landlord and a retired Army sergeant - these seven have the task of sorting through 51 days of mounting frustrations and one of bloody mayhem, and assigning blame for an outcome that nobody was proud...
Several other cases were filed against Harvard in its capacity as the owner and landlord of Cambridge property. In one an individual fell on a sidewalk outside of a Harvard-owned building in 1996 during a winter storm...