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About 200 Cambridge residents protested proposed rent increases and called for greater sensitivity to tenant concerns at a public hearing of the Cambridge Rent Control board last night...
...board's policy of passing on the costs of inflation to tenants in the form of rent increases undermines the intention of rent control, Robert White, a Cambridge tenant said. Landords are, in effects exempt from inflation, giving them the same status in our community as priests," White added...
...board's energy conservation plan will be difficult to regulate, especially considering the backlog of cases now facing the board, Cambridge tenant David Travers said, adding that the 1979 rent control hearings are just now being completed...
...faces devastating social discrimination. He can legally be excluded from any kind of employment, public or private, barred by labor unions, denied housing, mortgage, credit insurance, even public accomodations. In all 50 states he is deemed unfit to teach school. In each case, he is judged as a worker, tenant or customer not by his credentials for such activities, but by how he conducts his private life...
Another typically screwball case occurred again between landlord and tenant. The "refrigerator case" originated when a woman leased an apartment from a new landlord two weeks before moving in, bought a refrigerator and stocked it with groceries to have ready when she moved in. The woman arrived two weeks later and found no trace of food or refrigerator. The landlord, it turned out, was a heroin addict who had eaten all the groceries and then sold the fridge to finance his habit. The woman won the case easily, and moved in the next...