Word: tenanted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Although tenants in a Harvard-owned apartment complex on Mt. Auburn St. are cooperating with the University's plans for renovation, a group of city tenant activities has announced its opposition to the plans...
Members of the Cambridge Rent Control Task Force-a group of five tenants' organizations, including Harvard Tenant's Union (HTU) have asked the city's rent control board to deny Harvard permission to remove the building's units from the rental market to do the renovations. Arguing before a rent board hearing examiner last week, the members claimed that although tenants at the Craigie Arms apartments reached an agreement with the University to vacate their units, granting Harvard the necessary removal permit would increase the strain on the city's already tight housing market...
What outraged Duarte was the sweeping nature of the resolution. President Alvaro Alfredo Magana's original proposal was to continue the exemption, first enacted last year, of cotton and sugar cane acreage from the so-called land-to-the-tiller reform decree, which enables tenant farmers and sharecroppers to acquire plots of up to 17 acres from their landlords. The suspension, for one growing season (a year for cotton, three to four years for sugar cane), was aimed at ensuring high production of two of the country's leading exports at a time of economic strain...
...Under Phase 3, the so-called land-to-the-tiller decree, peasants were permitted to buy the tiny plots (up to 17 acres) that they had been working as tenant farmers or sharecroppers. About 29,000 farmers, out of a potential 125,000, have applied for ownership...
...questions the board deals with should be no surprise." Cohn says in answer to a question about tenants' confusion at board meetings. "There really are no surprise, if a tenant is paying attention, he will understand procedures." But only a few minutes later Cohn says. "It we can be faulted, it is because we sometimes do not give a layman's explanation" of the reasoning behind decisions. "Somebody who hasn't been there [at the rent board] before or doesn't understand the issues might be surprised, but then it's the job of those with experience to explain what...