Word: rent
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Duehay said that Harvard's current proposal, though it calls for only "moderate" rent increases, would still displace hundreds of tenants...
...What Harvard proposes as moderate is not necessarily moderate for those living in the units," he said, noting that rent increases of 10 percent have already been approved for this year...
...Rent control guaranteed votes from tenants and the more transient elements of the population. But now that it has been lifted, we're seeing a major realignment," Maddox said...
Gretna J. Bohn-Hayden, a neighborhood activist, said she thinks many of the 4,000 citizens who have been dropped from the voting lists since last election were tenants in rent-controlled properties who have left Cambridge...
...mother Evelyn's struggle has been the epic of his life. Determined to avoid welfare, she housed her son with her mother and moved in with friends while holding down two full-time jobs as a waitress. Eventually Evelyn made enough money to rent an apartment, but when she lost her job, she and Marshall had to move to a public-housing project, where they shared an apartment with three other people. With money so scarce, Marshall often joined the long lines for free meals served in Savannah's public parks...