Word: tenants
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shot at winning a seat on the nine-member panel. A tireless campaigner, she has probably shaken as many hands as any candidates save the Sullivans, Walter and David. But despite her avowed support for rent control and opposition to condominium conversion. Abt got only three votes at the tenant convention; more than 100 activists voted against her, and she was the only candidate in attendance to be defeated. She was, she said, "shocked...
...greatest crime, in the eyes of tenant organizers, seems to be equivocation. Though she swore never to vote against rent control, she presented a set of five problems with the program in her speech to the convention. And she said this: "Some sympathetic observers have pointed out that rent control may not be the best or the only way to protect low and moderate income people...Without better data, it is impossible to insist on rent control and condo controls in exactly their current forms." Saying that to a room full of tenant activists was not wise; better...
...city's housing market is great enough that within a decade, most forecasters conclude, the bulk of city apartments would have become condominiums. Rents might still be controlled, but very few people would be paying them. And so the dispute over condo conversion seems the likeliest battleground for tenants and developers to fight it out. For the ideological reasons outlined above, large parts of the traditional CCA constituency may become supporters of the developers; if they do, the pressures on CCA candidates may become enormous. The demands of tenant activists will have to be compromised with the demands...
After all, there are few ties besides ideology that bind the CCA and the leftist tenant movement. One is predominantly rich and white; the other includes many lower and middle income residents, and many Blacks and Hispanics. One is fashionable; the other isn't. (Abt, dressed to the nines, looked distinctly out of place amid the blue jeans that dominated the tenant forum.) And when the CCA is liberal, it is because its members are looking out for others. The tenants will stay radical; they're looking out for themselves. Even the bridges between the two groups are tenuous. Though...
Student registrants number between 700 and 800, and could play a large role in the election, a student, Guy Molyneux, said yesterday. Molyneux, an organizer for the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee (DSOC) helped distribute leaflets last weekend backing the candidacy of tenant advocate and council incumbent David Sullivan...