Word: tenanted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...worked hard to soften the impact of Reagan Administration budget cuts on grants to cities and was recently appointed chairman of the House Committee on Federal Financial Assistance. Throughout her tenure she has worked for housing programs ranging from urban renewal projects to aid for homeowners to legislation protecting tenant rights. She has sponsored affirmative action and anti-discrimination legislation and led the fight for minority employment and training programs, and for integrating police and fire departments...
...real needed reform of rent control in Cambridge is being obscured by the misleading questions about tenant's income, the tax consequences for controlled versus non-controlled properties and City Councilor Bill Walsh's proposal for "dedication" of controlled units to low- to moderate-income tenants--a proposal best understood as vacancy decontrol...
Landlords have always been permitted to petition for additional rent increases where documented increases in costs or capital improvement necessitated additional income to maintain a fair net operating income. No landlord can legally be denied a fair income, regardless of a tenant's ability...
...will fail to benefit or be hurt? Few native Cantabrigians will have enough resources to buy in the hottest real estate market in the U.S. Middle-income tenants who already can't afford to buy in the Massachusetts market and who can't or won't pay $1000 or more per month for old, small apartments will see the small supply of affordable rental housing in Cambridge disappear immediately. Essentially every tenant above the poverty income level will see his rent increase drastically despite no correspoonding increase in costs to the landlord or increase in the quality of the unit...
...There's no question but that we should go back to what were the original strong points of the tenant organizations in the 1960s--and that is organizing tenants," said Joel Johnson, a leader in forming the new Cambridge Tenants Union...