Word: tenants
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Even at meetings chaired by past rent board chairman. "The atmosphere was never cordial," Cavellini says. But there were other chairmen Callaghan and who had "less of a short face." With previous chairmen, Cavellini says that both tenant and landlords "got more respect." "There is a certain impatience," he says of Callaghan, pausing to explain that he "doesn't want to make any personal attacks." But he says. "The chairman sets a tone." "Previous boards have been more courteous and treated both adversial parties with move respect...
Lynn Weissberg acts as chairperson of the legal committee of one of the city's largest tenant lobbying groups and frequently appears before the rent board on behalf of residents. She also maintains a private law practice and attends rent board proceedings with her tenant clients...
Although Walsh says rent board members are "extremely rude" to landlords and tenants, he contends that the major problem with the rent board is the members "political leanings. "Cohn" wants to make sure the CCA stays in effective control of the rent board "in order to perpetuate things." Walsh says, adding that neither the landlord nor tenant representatives are typical of the groups they serve. According to Walsh Cohn does not under stand the average landlord. He's a dreamer in a world where reality" outweighs any respect for theory. And Walsh says that if you tell me Joel Johnson...
Joel Johnson has served as one of the rent board's two tenant representative since...
...think that tenants probably have some misconceptions about rent control," Johnson says. "They think they may not be very secure, but a lot have forgotten or never experienced what it would be like living in a city without rent control." The fact that some tenants see rent control as an absolute ceiling on rents causes problems, he says. In addition, some tenants become uncomfortable at rent board meetings because they "haven't learned yet how to approach the board." "When I went before the board as a tenant. I was not sure what to do," he admits. But after appearing...