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City Council candidates promising to support the right of all tenants to buy apartments as condominiums may win campaign support from the Cambridge Condominium Network, a newly formed city political group. The CCN has yet to endorse formally candidates for the November 3 election, but another local group-the Cambridge chapter of Citizens for Participation in Political Action-released its slate of council candidates last week. The liberal CPPAX gave the nod to Mary Ellen Preusser, Francis Duehay '55, Alice Wolf, David Sullivan, Saundra Graham and Wendy Abt. That slate mirrors the Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) ticket, except...
While supporting the council's efforts on their behalf, tenant representatives last night complained that the housing authority's concessions are not sufficiently specific to protect their interests. Tenant association president Kenneth Reeves said that unless the language of the agreement is strengthened, the residents will be left in "continuing limbo...
...housing authority has agreed, after meeting with members of the city council, to seek "alternative sites" for low-income and elderly housing in the Agassiz neighborhood near the Law School, and to develop "alternate treatment" for the 25 apartments at 11 Everett St., council members told tenant representatives last night...
University lawyers recently responded to a $1.2 million suit brought by a tenant in a Harvard-owned building who claimed she was sexually assaulted due to inadequate security precautions. The response cites a variety of defenses, including the claim that if "the defendant (Harvard) was negligent as alleged, the plaintiff was negligent to a greater degree...
Other observers--including several council candidates--said the Task Force rejection might not hurt Abt's campaign. "She wouldn't have gotten many tenant votes anyway," one candidate said, adding that some opponents of rent control might now support her candidacy...