Word: rent
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...Corporation is now embroiled in a fight with tenants over its local properties. Since the end of rent control in Cambridge last year, residents have not been able to rely on Harvard, one of the city's largest landlords, to provide long-term affordable housing. Rather than living up to its officially touted goals of supporting the Cambridge community, the Harvard Corporation is currently pursuing a detrimental but profit-maximizing strategy which would keep only eight of its 700 housing units reasonbly priced. Local leaders have demanded that Harvard sell its buildings to the city, which would still give Harvard...
...rally, by far one of the largest at Harvard in recent memory, drew not only backers of PBH but supporters of an ethnic studies department, a multicultural student center and rent control, as well as many curious passers...
...restaurant-association hot line touted jobs in California, so Randy packed up Josh and went there. But the jobs didn't materialize, at least not at $10 an hour. Randy ended up washing cars at a garage in Glendale. As the work was seasonal, he got behind on his rent and one day received an eviction notice. "The scariest part," says Enos, 33, "is that if I hadn't found a place to stay, child-welfare services would probably have taken my son away from me.'' One shelter he tried accepted only women and children. But then he got lucky...
...Scout troop for him. Randy could earn "shelter money" to buy necessities, while 80% of his $490 a month from Aid to Families with Dependent Children (afdc) check was set aside by the Gramercy staff to build up some savings so he can move out and start paying rent on his own place. That will happen within two weeks, when he will return to his Glendale job and expects to train as a forklift operator. "I feel I have been blessed," Randy says, "with people here who have helped...
...building owners may face a loss in rental fees under the ordinance. Nickinello refused to enumerate how much Ackerly charges in rent, but said the banning of billboards "would be a financial drain on the city of Cambridge...