Word: tenanted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ruling is not stayed, tenants who began the process of purchasing their units before August of this year--when new, superceding city regulations further restricting conversion went into effect--will be able to purchase their homes. The 1000-unit figure comes from city councilor and tenant activist David Sullivan, who estimates 40 buildings are affected; others, including landlord attorney William Walsh, estimated yesterday that as few as 100 homes may be involved...
...city's tenant protection program is being slowly eviscerated," Sullivan, who criticized the effectiveness of lawyers representing the Rent Control Board, said. He added. however, that most of the city's 20,000 tenants will be unaffected by the ruling...
...think there's a fairly good chance of getting it stayed," Sullivan said, adding that new evidence on the original intent of the city council to block tenant purchases would be presented...
Councilor David Sullivan, the only tenant on the council, described Vellucci's proposal as an "attempt to strangle rent control...
...overturn the ordinance. If the amendment exempting two buildings was ever passed, surely any sensible judge would be tempted to throw the entire law out the window as a gross violation of equal protection. And if that happens, the condo gold rush will be on again and every tenant in the city will once more live in fear. The law protects all tenants too poor to buy their own apartments, and guarantees that there will be rental housing in the city in the years to come. No single statute, save perhaps the rent control law, is more important to Cambridge...