Word: rent
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Morrison and other citizens say they fear the end of rent control may change the character of Riverside by allowing nearby Harvard and MIT to purchase large tracts of land and encroach upon the neighborhood...
This person had been the most visible officer of a landlord corporation that spent $180,000 trying to crush the rent control rights of its tenants. The corporations attack on its tenants were so unpopular that the corporations stopped electing directors for years because the people who controlled the corporation feared that new directors, once elected, would stop its attacks on its tenants...
...city councillors deserve the highest commendation from all of us. They kept rent control in place for years in spite of the anti-tenant situation at the highest level of the Cambridge "Tenants" Union (CTU). Those city councillors are to be commended and cherished for their accomplishment...
...Cambridge "Tenants" Union is so bad that its "tenant leaders" have called it "antitenant" to work both to defend their homes. They have called it "anti-tenant" to defend tenants of the Department of Housing and Urban Development. They have called it "anti-ten-ant" to defend rent control tenants who lacked condominium eviction rights...
These "tenant leaders" sat on their hands for years while the Rent Control Board considered proposal after proposal to harm rooming-house tenants, the weakest of the weak...