Word: permitted
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Harvard Real Estate (HRE), through its developers, Housing Associates, has requested permission to raise rent beyond legal levels to rehabilitate the Craigie Arms apartments. If the board grants the necessary removal permit. Harvard would be the first beneficiary of Cambridge's "distressed building policy," designed to encourage landlords to put deteriorated property back on the housing market...
Since HRE is one of the wealthiest landowners in the area, opponents of the removal permit believe the company could pay for the renovations without raising rent in the building...
...requested to see the Harvard Corporation's annual financial report (specifically its mortgage portfolio) in order to determine its ability to do the job without a removal permit...
Tenants argued that the board's decision to grant the removal permit should hinge on the issue of intentional owner neglect. The distressed building provision contains a section which does not allow removal permits in cases where the "owner neglected reasonable maintenance and repair of the building to escape from rent control...
Both Helms and Hunt support a sustained military buildup, the MX missile and B-l bomber and stronger conventional forces. They oppose a nuclear freeze. Both back a constitutional amendment to permit spoken prayer in public schools...