Word: rental
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...more than a handful of citizens and ordinarily receives little direct scrutiny from the media, the Cambridge Rent Control Board wields tremendous power with its regulations over landlords and tenants. At a meeting Wednesday night, the board refused to find Harvard liable for more than a year of rental overcharges of tenants at 8 Pympton St. Although the official tally, according to the rent board's clerk, was 4-1, the five members never took a formal roll call vote, and two members, as is their custom, sat through the session with their backs three-quarters turned to the half...
...rule of law is being chipped away when penalties are not levied for violations, and regulations are not defended. Over the past year a pattern has emerged out of the City Council which represents a chipping away at the rule of law as it applies to rental housing in Cambridge. This threatens to create a situation in which neither landlord nor tenant will respect or abide...
...NEED advanced calculus to figure out why Harvard was--and is still--anxious to change its rental structure at the 80-year-old Craigie Arms. Rents in the building currently average about $175 a month--far below the open market level for non-rent controlled units. And under the rent control guidelines, Harvard may only increase rental charges when the rent control board approves capital expenditures on the building...
Only 60 or so rental units are at stake in the Craigie Arms controversy. But in a larger context, it is the University's entire policy towards its extensive property that are at issue. The Craigie tenants tried--most likely unsuccessfully--to modify that policy to better respond to the necessities of tenants who cannot afford more than $8000 a year in rent. That is a hard thing to do when the University maintains that it in fact plays only a minor role in the Square and in fact cannot be reasonably expected to have a great effect on improving...
...more than a thousand open-market rental apartments will also be equipped with the detectors by the end of 1982, Sally Zeckhauser, president of Harvard Real Estate (HRE), added...