Word: tenants
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Cambridge tenant activists gathered Sunday afternoon to found a new grassroots organization that will replace the Cambridge Rent Control Coalition (CRCC) with a unified body they said could act more effectively in pursuit of common goals...
...Each tenant will then be given a tenant profile form to fill out and to be returned to the Board within 14 days, and each profile shall contain sufficient information to allow the Board to determine whether the tenant's status is low income, moderate income, handicapped or elderly. The Board shall promulgate definitions of low-income, moderate-income, handicapped and elderly tenants ("qualified tenant(s)") in conjunction with the Cambridge Housing Authority and consistent with current guidelines promulgated...
...Each qualified person shall be required on a bianual basis to update and re-file his tenant profile and transmit same to the Board and to the owner. Any tenant who no longer is a qualified person shall be given a reasonable period to locate alternative housing, and the entire cost of an eviction, if necessary, shall be borne by the non-qualifying person. No landlord/owner shall knowingly permit a nonqualified person to reside in a dedicated unit...
...Once an existing tenant vacates, the owner of a unit designated with the Board as vacancy decontrolled shall file notice with the Board that the unit is vacant and shall pay a one-time charge of $1,000.00 to the City of Cambridge Fund. Thereafter, the unit may be rented for the fair market value...
...Tenants in dedicated units may not purchase their units unless a decontrolled unit is not purchased, in which event the owner and tenant may petition the Board to change the designations of the units, which petition the Board to change the designations of the units, which petition shall not be unreasonably denied. No tenant in a non-dedicated unit may be evicted for condominium conversion...