Word: tenanted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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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...
This Sullivan argues that rent control imposes hard and often absurd burdens on small landlords, and he supports a system of "vacancy decontrol," which would allow an owner to stop renting a controlled apartment after the tenant left. Supporters of the current system, however, say David J.'s proposal would both reduce the housing stock and encourage landlords to use devious means of getting tenants to move...
...David J. indignantly points out, David E.was born in Buffalo, N.Y., and first enteredCambridge politics as a Harvard Law School studentwho discovered that he was not allowed to vote inCambridge. After working to get the vote forstudents, he stayed in Cambridge--and stayed incity politics as a liberal tenant advocate whoopposes university expansion
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...