Word: tenants
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...activities of the group, ranging from tenant education classes to public demonstrations, reflect the members' determination to secure a fair deal in tenant-landlord relations. Monthly newsletters cover a wide spectrum of social issues: police-community relations, tenant legal problems, sex discrimination and minority rights...
...make contact with groups whose interests coincide with its own. Its founding principles state: "CTOC seeks alliances with labor, black and third world, women's, G.I., student and neighborhood groups around points of agreement in our programs. CTOC also welcomes the membership of small homeowners. Small homeowners, the tenant group says, "can be evicted through the state's power of eminent domain or through foreclosures. We stand for tenant unity with small homeowners...
...clearly does not want to, nor feels any obligation to, relinquish the land to the "community." Just so, the Purchase Option Plan will insure that none of these properties leaves University control. If an owner wishes to sell, Harvard will have first crack at the house, and if a tenant ends his employment with the University, he must relinquish the house...
Russell Hill says that Harvard is drawing up the plan because certain tenants have expressed interest in owner-occupancy and because outside ownership relieves Harvard of taxes and maintenance costs and apparently increases the tenant's care for the homes. Hill says that he realistically doesn't expect more than six of the 30 involved tenants to opt for owner-occupancy initially...
Castriotta, whom tenant groups have accused of shady and corrupt practices in CHA matters, announced August 26 that she would leave the housing authority because of poor health. Speaking to reporters from her bed in Cambridge City Hospital, Castriotta said she had suffered two heart seizures and had been advised by her doctor to leave the CHA before her five-year term expires in October...