Word: tenants
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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SPIL Co-Chair MaryJeanette Dee, a second-year law student, said she was unaware of SPOA's complaints, but that the group is unlikely to alter its pro-tenant stance...
Although SPIL members have discussed the idea of extending their legal assistance to landlords, Dee said that the group's limited resources make such a scheme unworkable. And by representing property owners, she said, the group would lose its effectiveness as tenant advocates...
...tenant is presumed by them to be defenseless and right," Natale said. "And the owner is presumed to be wealthy and mean. We are assumed to be the bad guys...
...added that SPIL was founded as a tenant advocacy group, and that a change of focus would "fundamentally alter the nature of the group...
...exception that a landlord is a person who cannot afford representation," Dee said. "And even a small landlord has experience going down to the Rent Control Board. A tenant is less likely to have experience in that...