Word: tenants
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Another way the University can make its influence felt is by moving negotiations to its own territory. Turk says Harvard used this tactic in 1985 at a meeting of tenant activists, University lawyers and city officials. The activists, including Turk, charged Harvard Real Estate with neglecting the Craigie Arms apartment building...
...proposed to replace the houses with a hotel, and the Rent Control Board originally approved the plan. But tenant activists appealed the board's decision and a superior court judge recently sent the proposal back to the city board to hear more evidence...
...tenants of the 56-unit rent-controlled building will remain in their homes as before, but if one leaves, Cambridge Community Housing will open the vacant apartment to a federally subsidized tenant...
...This is a real estate industry proposal," says Robert O. Edbrooke, co-chair of the Cambridge Tenants' Union. "It has been misrepresented as a pro-tenant proposition...
...tenant buys their own apartment, the number of homeowners is going up by one, and I would argue that that's not bad, that's good," Meyer says. "Homeownership is a good thing...