Word: tenanted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...interview with the Crimson this week, long-time tenant activist Michael H. Turk said that he intends to run for the city council. Although Turk has never held a political office before, he has coordinated several organizations of rent-controlled Cambridge tenants...
Since the Harvard Gazette Printed all the proposed rent hikes last month, the real estate agency has received 12 tenant letters concerning the increases, Kossan said. A six-man committee headed by Harvard General Counsel Daniel Steiner '54 has reviewed the tenant comments and formulated responses...
...Some tenant letters queried on how their individual rent increase was determined, HRE's method of estasblishing rent hikes, and how tenant apartments are classified officials said...
...this is done completely within the law, but the policy reeks of bad faith with the people of Cambridge. When these two and three-unit dwellings are taken off the rent control market, the tenant is no longer protected from a landlord, presumably a faculty member, who wishes to lack up the monthly rent at his own whim. Many low and moderate income Cantabrigians can't afford these inevitable rent increases. And since it takes months to find affordable housing in Cambridge, technicians, teachers and yes, even some of Harvard's own graduate students will be pushed right...
...longer an issue of equity. It's politics pure and simple," says developer DiGiovanni. "Three or four councilors have the tenant vote locked...