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Speakers--including City Councillors Francis H. Duehay '55 and Michael A. Sullivan, as well as leaders of Cambridge neighborhood and tenant organizations--discussed Harvard's decision to convert 700 formerly rent-controlled apartments into housing for University affiliates...
Those who spoke at the event, titled "The Harvard Empire and Cambridge: Economic Violence in our Own Backyard," agreed that Cambridge does not have the resources to keep housing affordable after the end of rent control...
...speakers agreed that the University, which owns five percent of Cambridge's formerly rent-controlled property, is in a special position to aid the city's mission to preserve affordable housing in Cambridge...
Doris M. Tanner, age 70, lives at 64 Oxford Street in a formerly rent-controlled apartment owned by Harvard. She says that Harvard has told her it will increase her rent by five percent each year...
Russell opposed rent control, the most controversial issue taken up by the community during her tenure...