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...Cambridge Tenants Organizing Committee, perhaps the busiest and most aggressive of the more than 20 tenant groups in the state, works out of a two-room office in the dated brick building at 595 Mass Ave in Central Square. There, a volunteer staff follows the moves of every landlord, land owner and government official that might have adverse effects on the lives of local tenants...
...eighteen legal services back-up centers located throughout the nation. These centers, most of which were established through OEO grants made to selected law schools, were set up to provide specialized research services to aid local units on complex suits. A neighborhood lawyer with a tenant-landlord problem might turn to the National Housing and Economic Development Law Project in Berkeley, Cal.; an attorney working on a welfare case might call up the Center of Social Welfare Policy and Law in New York; an agency serving a migrant worker might look to the Migrant Legal Action Program in Washington...
...Angeles when Earl was born. The elder Warren joined the American Railway Union and was blacklisted in 1894 when he went on strike. He moved the family to Bakersfield, where he got a job and began working his way up the economic ladder to the comfortable perch of prosperous landlord. But young Earl had a keen understanding of the workingman's problems. As a teenage clarinet player, he joined the musicians' union and also worked as a freight-yard helper and truck driver...
With the astonished landlord trailing in his wake, the young burglar who had previously robbed the place roamed the apartment complex, suggesting a change of lock here, a sturdier door there and providing other professional advice on security. Another Minneapolis felon recently brought his disabled car to the garage where he had once passed a $123 bad check that landed him in prison. One thief now gets along so well with the shopkeeper he once stole from that he was offered a job in the store...
...PROCESS goes on, the focus remains the same--the control law and its details--even though all groups involved in the struggle agree that control is an inadequate, and costly way to deal with the housing problem. Landlord groups, aiming for the end of all controls and a return to the free market, argue correctly that control acts like a lottery--benefiting those who are in the right place at the right time, not necessarily the poor, elderly or disadvantaged. At the same time, controls are a check on new construction, and may result in poor maintenance for some units...