Word: moving
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that urged a delay in order to prevent a glut. Unchecked, the conversions will whittle away at the supply of available low and middle income housing. The elderly in Cambridge are especially vulnerable, as most live on fixed incomes and find it difficult to find new apartments and to move...
Crane supports vacancy rent decontrol. He says the purpose of rent control is to protect "low and middle income people, and elderly residents, who do not move around." Vacancy decontrol will not hurt these tenants, Crane says, but it will free up other apartments so that landlords can charge a fairer rent. These other apartments are now occupied by young professional people, "who can pay a fair market price," he says...
Reformers owe him a debt of gratitude for that move, but his ties to Sullivan have incurred the displeasure of some conservatives-a few of whom say Russell has profited from the relationship patronage-wise...
...politicians don't always behave. Two weeks ago, the city council voted to urge the Cambridge Housing Authority to reinstate Francis G. White, its former director of maintenance, in what one source termed a pre-election move to gain votes. The request couldn't stick, however; White still doesn't work at the housing authority...
...city manager during that time of changes, but he only lasted from 1968 to 1970. The council, with the support of present Councilors Vellucci, Daniel I. Clinton and Thomas W. Danehy, ousted him in June 1970 over many objections. Cambridge residents crowded into the council chambers to protest the move at a hearing required by the city charter, and former Harvard President Nathan M. Pusey '28 joined with the then-president of MIT to send a telegram to the nine councilors stating, "Now, as never before, we need stability and continuity in the administrative branch of the city government." (Spring...