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Housing conditions in these apartments had deteriorated badly in the months preceding the April demonstrations. As Medical School administrators later acknowledged, maintenance had been extremely deficient, and a large number of safety hazards had been left unrepaired. Some tenants had even been forced to leave their apartments when maintenance surveys revealed violations of municipal housing codes. Tenant eviction in the medical area had already begun...
...were any of these decisions made in consultation with affected tenants. There were no provisions for tenant representation on the AHC governing board, and even the question of community membership on the Fein Committee was a point of sharp contention. Only after extensive debate within the committee (including, at one point, a discussion of whether the affected area fit the definitions of "community" and "neighborhood"), were representatives of five community organizations invited to join. Tenants and others in the area later worked in sub-committees and task forces as directed by the committee, but their effectiveness was limited...
...foothold in the Stadium; after a year, it would be difficult to throw them out, particularly after the club has made the alterations needed to raise the Stadiums capacity to 50,000. As any landlord can testify, these days it's easier not to rent to an undesirable tenant in the first place than to try to evict...
Each day brings more new evidence that the U.S. urban dweller conducts his life as though in an armed camp. In New York last week, a court ruled that a woman tenant could keep a watchdog in her apartment, in violation of her lease, because of "the present circumstances of rampant crime." Schools around the U.S. have been hiring guards to protect students. In Washington, D.C., a 15-year-old junior high school student was shot to death recently in his school by a classmate...
...those present at the White House meeting-Howard W. Emmons, Gordon McKay Professor of Mechanical Engineering-said, however, that Dubridge had offered no indication he would actually be able to find another Federal tenant for the $36 million facility. "There is no optimism or pessimism about finding one at this time," Emmons said yesterday...