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...student, however, the extent of private industry rip-off is liable to be less serious than for those making their way in the world, those who must confront daily landlord-tenant situations, bill payments, insurance claims, and other harsh realities which entail numerous rip-off possibilities. The Phillips Brooks House small claims committee, operating out of Roxbury's municipal courthouse small claims advisory service, provides a campus link to the world of everyday consumer problems, and a chance for students to help combat them. Emily Skoler '82, last year's PBH small claims president, describes small claims as "a people...
...solving cases happily, as their more informal nature allows the opposing parties to break through stumbling blocks like pride and anger and get through to the underlying problem, which oftentimes has little or nothing to do with the original grievance. The majority of cases, explains Skoler, are between acquaintances. Landlord-tenant cases abound, followed by longterm customer service cases and family or neighbor squabbles. Another common case involves the "I bought it; it broke" syndrome, though with a thousand variations on a theme...
...want dollars coming out of our pockets to insure landlord profits," Joel Johnson, a member of the Alliance of Cambridge Tenants (ACT), added. "It's time to say 'No More,'" he said...
Should rent control advocates win more power in the city, rent control should be changed to more aggressively protect tenants, Baker added. "Rent control cannot continue to work for landlords. This is our city--not the landlord's city, not the developer's city," she added...
Councilor Walter Sullivan's call for vacancy decontrol--tabled for a week--is the first legislative challenge to rent control in more than a year. His proposal would end the limits on the rent a landlord can charge for an apartment as soon as current tenants leave their homes, effectively ending rent control gradually as the city's apartments change hands...