Word: tenanted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...proposals drafted all with the goal of providing affordable housing for those punched in the city's tight housing market. But when legislation requiring real estate developers to provide the necessary units was put before the city council two months ago it went off like a political bombshell Tenant groups mobilized, the Chamber of Commerce issued a call to arms and divided city councilors shifted uncomfortably in their seats as the battle lines were drawn...
...private yards. "I wanted the people in the projects to see the man in charge," he says. "When people asked what I was doing, I'd say, 'The first time, I'm cleaning it up for you. The second time, I'll be cleaning it up for the new tenant.' " Lindsey had remarkable authority not only to evict tenants while he renovated buildings in oasis areas but also to permit only "good people" to move in. "A good person to us was someone who made some contribution to where he was living, someone who would respect the rights...
...hear the tenant organizers tell it, Harvard is getting out of the market to make a quick profit and bypass Cambridge rent control laws...
Under city regulations, owner occupied buildings housing three or fewer families are not subject to rent control and rules for owner tenant relations, including those forbidding eviction without cause...
Jennifer Burton and Peter Howard stand out with consistently solid performances as the landlady and her homosexual tuberculoid tenant. As Mrs. Wire, Burton masterfully shows the despair of a woman losing much of what she once had, including her sanity. Howard's despair, though, is that of someone striving for what he can' never have. Howard brings a strong sense of understanding and sympathy which elicits more than just the typical--and perhaps automatic--pity...