Word: tenants
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tenant's movement is growing in Cambridge." Wolk said "it's much stronger now than it was in the fall...
...existent. With a housing stock such as Cambridge's, consisting largely of older buildings, maintenance costs are substantial, yet absolutely necessary to stave off deterioration. The Harbridge House report flatly states that rent control is not affecting the amount landlords spend on maintenance. Citing the increased powers of tenants to hold up rent increases by complaints about housing conditions, the report states that housing quality has at least been maintained under rent control. Placing the burden on the tenant of maintaining housing quality seems, however, both unreasonable and unrealistic. The tenant's ability to put pressure on his landlord...
...high rents. In Central Square, however, the landlord's profit margin is much thinner, and as a less affluent area, its housing deteriorates much more quickly with any cutbacks on maintenance. Ironically, rent control is hurting most the very groups it was designed to aid-the lower-income group tenant...
...charged that the building of the power plant violated a 1970 agreement between the University and the tenant group which prohibited Harvard from taking land in the RTH neighborhood until residents could be relocated properly...
...broad and too rich for any to believe that it doesn't belong to all of us. As long as we act the part of the living and hold it sacred by our deeds, it will not escape us. We must get together-poor and vulnerable black tenant farmers, Spanish speaking regnant youth, the young people of Appalachia, a region so long plundered of its wealth, wealth which has been stripped from the ground and carried elsewhere leaving those who did the work very little in return...