Word: tenants
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...recent weeks, members of local tenant groups, black organizations and white neighborhoods have scored the police for failing to enforce the laws uniformly and for engaging in "racist activities...
...Cambridge Tenants Organizing Committee, perhaps the busiest and most aggressive of the more than 20 tenant groups in the state, works out of a two-room office in the dated brick building at 595 Mass Ave in Central Square. There, a volunteer staff follows the moves of every landlord, land owner and government official that might have adverse effects on the lives of local tenants...
...themselves but at the eighteen legal services back-up centers located throughout the nation. These centers, most of which were established through OEO grants made to selected law schools, were set up to provide specialized research services to aid local units on complex suits. A neighborhood lawyer with a tenant-landlord problem might turn to the National Housing and Economic Development Law Project in Berkeley, Cal.; an attorney working on a welfare case might call up the Center of Social Welfare Policy and Law in New York; an agency serving a migrant worker might look to the Migrant Legal Action...
However, both Deland and Moulton said yesterday that tenant and community groups had been consulted and had agreed to the construction plans...
...Tenant groups admit that control does not solve the housing problem. CTOC holds that the solution to housing problems is the abolition of private property. CTOC spokesmen argue that control lowers rents for some tenants, and makes it harder for landlords to evict residents. Controls are also useful, according to CTOC, as a catalyst in tenant organization for more basic reform...