Word: rent
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Tenant groups yesterday expressed concern with a pamphlet released last week by Massachusetts Secretary of State William F. Galvin discussing the two-year transition period before the end of rent control...
...arrangement called for Harvard to keep all patents (a veritable gold mine: revenue from the University's patents are going up 20 percent a year) and for the companies to pay Harvard steep licensing fees. The University would also get rental fees from biotech firms that plan to rent out floors in center, and there was hope that the Institutes' novel approach would generate philanthropic interest...
According to Pitkin, who runs a demographicconsulting firm on Brattle Street, the Novemberdecision to abolish rent control is likely todestabilize Cambridge's tenant population...
...Cambridge--before rent control--had the leaststable population in Massachusetts," Pitkin says...
...officials say they try to balance theirgoal of appeasing the community with their basicneed to receive rent payments on time by selectingtheir tenants very carefully...