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...apartment can only qualify for removal from the rent-control rolls if the owner occupies it, if the tenant lived there before the cutoff date of August 10, 1979, or if it is in such bad condition that only new construction can make it habitable...
David J. may not buy his own unit because he moved in after 1979 and it is in good shape. So instead of buying the unit as a condominium, he must remain a rent-control tenant of his own grandfather...
Several of Zeckhauser's successes over the past nine years have been won at the expense of HRE's tenants. Two years ago the company tried to remove 60 apartments in the Craigie Arms apartment building from the rent control lists, sparking furor in the community. It continues to take rent-controlled apartments off of the rolls by selling them to small landlords who can legally evict tenants. In addition, tenant activists charge that HRE skirted the law in cases like those of rent-controlled buildings at 8-10 Mt. Auburn St. and 1306 Mass...
...tried to exempt the Craigie Arms apartment building on Mt. Auburn Street from rent control. The structure--since replaced by a modern development--was allowed to run down until its broken intercom system allowed two men to enter an apartment and rape a tenant...
...believe one way of assessing problems is through questionnaires sent periodically to tenants to evaluate the performance and conduct of their janitors. No tenant should have to tolerate the presence of a janitor who is unwilling to work for him/her. I have learned that there are tenants in other buildings who are dissatisfied with this janitor. We should not be compelled to solve our problems through Tenants' Unions...