Word: rented
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sullivan favors vacancy decontrol so that landlords can re-rent vacated dwellings at their current market value. He also supports condominium conversions, unless they result in the eviction of senior citizens and disabled persons...
Vellucci, while not a member of the Cambridge Civic Association, has supported rent control for years. "You've got to be black, you've got to be poor, you've got to be ethnic to feel it," he told a Kennedy School crowd Saturday night...
...other ways, though, Wylie is similar to fellow council liberals. He has voted with them on rent control and condominium conversion, although he argued last year that neighborhoods should have more say in planning their future...
...several terms, progressive candidates, most of whom rally under the standard of the Cambridge Civic Association (CCA), have held on to a slippery five-man majority. That one-vote edge accounts for rent control in the city of Cambridge. It is also responsible for recently passed limits on condominium conversion. And in large part, those votes have kept City Manager James L. Sullivan at the helm of the city administration...
Every Cambridge election is hard to call, but this year the job is especially difficult. An influx of condominium owners (and a correspoinding shrinkage in the number of tenants) has changed the city's demographics, and anti-rent control candidates are pushing hard for the votes of condo owners. Meanwhile, Cambridge's residents, most of them Democrats, are becoming increasingly wary of big-spending city government, and they demand to know why stratospheric tax rates haven't dropped because of new state...