Word: rented
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...current plans hold true, about 20 to 30 per cent of the units will be placed under Federal leased housing and rent supplement programs, which subsidize rents so that a low-income tenant pays only about 20 or 25 per cent of his income for rent...
...will rent or sell the land. The Mt. Auburn St. site will be developed by the Cambridge Corporation, a non-profit organization established by Harvard and M. I. T. to aid local low-income housing, while the West Cambridge site will go to Starrett Brothers and Eken, a private housing development company...
...April's strike relates to the effects of Harvard's expansion into the Cambridge and Boston community. It is clear from data on Harvard's growth and population, and housing market trends in the city as a whole, that the effect of Harvard's presence has been to raise rents sharply and force low-income families out of the city. Specifically, by not building a sufficient amount of housing to take care of its own growth, the University forced its students and faculty onto the private market where through greater economic power they in effect forced (and continue to force...
...restoring a substantial number of units to the low-income housing stock. It was proposed that this be done by assigning at least 25 per cent of Harvard's current stock of non-dormitory units to the leased public housing program and by constructing a minimum of 1500 low-rent units (in addition to 1500 units for its own personnel...
...expatriate sensibility that has grown up among young people, a new landlessness, an acute sense of dispossession. Wyatt wears a leather jacket with an American flag stitched on the back: Billy calls him Captain American. The land of the free is not only locked in convulsion now that the rent's come roun-it's lost. In the classic Western, the main character searches for a long-gone past; in Easy Rider America searches for itself, also long-gone. (Hanson: "This used to be a hell of a good country.") 'And he couldn't find it anywhere...