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...kicked out of Harvard-owned housing because I didn't pay my rent...
While he acknowledges that talk of evicted tenants is "sexy", he argues that such cases are only a small percentage of the whole. Most people, he says, can afford a small increase in their monthly rent...
Meanwhile, Cambridge Mayor Sheila Doyle Russell asserts that needy tenants were a minority of those living under rent control. "When we got down to the protected status tenants, they only got to be about 10 percent of rent-controlled apartments", she says. Russell adds that had tenant advocate groups been more flexible in 1994, a means-based system might have been enacted...
Russell says the debate was more about politics than helping the needy". They were not interested in protecting tenants, they were interested in protecting rent control...
Tenant advocates insist that if scrapping rent-control regulations does not force low-income residents out of the city, escalating property values and the paucity of low income housing will