Word: spoa
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...addition, SPOA members might refuse to rent property to Harvard affiliates, he said...
Members of the anti-rent control Small Property Owners' Association (SPOA) said yesterday they planned to picket Harvard to protest the involvement of law students in tenant advocacy cases...
...SPOA Co-Chair John F. Natale said that his group resents what it sees as "one-sided" activities by Students for Public Interest Law (SPIL) in cases before the city's Rent Control Board. SPIL, a part of the Law School's clinical studies program, provides free legal aid to tenants in many cases but does not represent landlords...
Natale said his group will "raise eternal hell" if Harvard does not close SPIL or force it to provide representation for landlords as well as tenants. Protest measures SPOA has considered include picketing the campus and disrupting next spring's Commencement exercises, Natale said...
...Those who don't want to change rent control are rigid because many of their supporters benefit [from rent control]," said SPOA President Peter Sheinfeld. "Rent control has caused homelessness and its own black market--we don't want to abolish rent control, we just want to refinance...