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While supporting the council's efforts on their behalf, tenant representatives last night complained that the housing authority's concessions are not sufficiently specific to protect their interests. Tenant association president Kenneth Reeves said that unless the language of the agreement is strengthened, the residents will be left in "continuing limbo...
...housing authority has agreed, after meeting with members of the city council, to seek "alternative sites" for low-income and elderly housing in the Agassiz neighborhood near the Law School, and to develop "alternate treatment" for the 25 apartments at 11 Everett St., council members told tenant representatives last night...
What it boils down to is this: Erickson was sent by Harvard to spy, or, if that word be too harsh, to gather information. He was not simply attending an open meeting like any other tenant, despite his protestations that he often attempts to "speak to tenants and to listen to their concerns." People just dropping by for a meeting do not disguise their names and addresses. Erickson, by the way, says on that score: "I honestly cannot remember the signature process." The whole episode stinks, and if it doesn't deeply embarrass Harvard--embarrass it enough to can Erickson...
More than a hundred city tenants voting in a convention yesterday decided not to endorse Wendy Abt in her bid for city council, a move that shocked some traditional city liberals and may indicate the beginning of a rift between them and more militant tenant advocates...
Other observers--including several council candidates--said the Task Force rejection might not hurt Abt's campaign. "She wouldn't have gotten many tenant votes anyway," one candidate said, adding that some opponents of rent control might now support her candidacy...