Word: tenanted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard's relations with the tenants it still has were tense through the spring and summer but seemed to quiet down this fall. Michael Turk, an officer of the Harvard Tenants Union, said much of the lull was due to tenant participation in the city council campaign...
...meeting December 10 will kick off the next tenant drive--to force Harvard to bear some of the costs for deferred maintenance it is only now performing. In the last year Harvard Real Estate has asked for many rent increases from the city's rent control board based on repair and improvement work it has performed...
...Tenants have complained that rents in Botanic Gardens and other Harvard-owned housing for University affiliates are too high. Linda B. Ramsey, president of the Botanic Gardens tenant association said yesterday, "There isn't much point in providing housing for Harvard affiliates if it's only at the full rate the market will bear...
...City tenants may have gotten some good news at last night's meeting, however; councilor Alfred E. Vellucci, traditionally a supporter of tenant rights but the swing vote in favor of the two condominium conversions, hinted that he would not support not amendment to the ordinance specifically exempting the buildings...
...Wilkes vote, political patterns again proved hard to break in the city. John St. George '70, who supported the CCA's platform but denounced its style, fared badly in the areas where such a stance was supposed to have helped him. And Robert White, despite a long history of tenant activism, found it next to impossible to break into the solid support of Cambridge apartment-dwellers for David Sullivan. Abt's candidacy may have proved this lesson most of all--despite high name visibility, enormous amounts of money, and an issue-oriented campaign, she was unable to switch many...