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...though widely regarded as bright and hard working, has alienated various constituent groups. In December she vetoed an ordinance, backed by the city's substantial homosexual population, that would have given unmarried couples, even those of the same sex, many of the rights of married people. Landlords and tenant groups are both critical of her housing policies. Says Feinstein: "You can get people to sign a petition for an overhead sewer line on Market Street." The recall, wrote Journalist Warren Hinckle in the Los Angeles Times, "has reinforced San Francisco's reputation as a tree house for adult...
Outside the Kennedy School a Law School group protested the recently released Reagan budget's proposed elimination of the Legal Services Corporation, a $ 240 million program which pays thousands of lawyers to defend the poor in civil cases such as land lord tenant disputes...
...resident students incur significantly higher housing costs than residents. And if they are unwilling to continue to pay rent during the summer months or endure the time-consuming bother of finding a suitable tenant to sublet, they face the thoroughly unpleasant task of searching each fall for new housing in the severely overextended Cambridge rental market...
Representatives of the Cambridge Rent Control Coalition, an alliance of the seven city tenant groups, have opposed the removal permits, arguing that the renovation would drive rents in most of the buildings beyond the reach of the low and moderate-income tenants which Cambridge's rent control ordinances protect...
...rent board acknowleged its error in March 1982 and lowered the rents in the building. But one tenant, Anne Brinton, said Harvard should have to refund the difference between the rents...