Word: tenants
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Members of the anti-rent control Small Property Owners' Association (SPOA) said yesterday they planned to picket Harvard to protest the involvement of law students in tenant advocacy cases...
Michael Turk, a tenant activist who has opposed Walsh on issues of housing, said yesterday that in the case of conflicts of interest, any potential for improprieties is as bad as actual illegal actions...
...addition, Independent Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci, who has functioned as a political party unto himself for the last 38 years, has also decided not to seek re-election. While Vellucci supports a progressive, pro-tenant agenda, CCA councillors quickly learn that it is never safe to count on his vote...
Sirena Caruso, a tenant who lived in Stevens' house between 1981 and 1985, paints a different picture. "He was very bizarre," says Caruso. She moved out of the house soon after discovering bullet holes in Stevens' room. According to Caruso, Stevens had a collection of mannequins, X-rated videos, videotaping equipment and a secret room hidden behind a moving bookcase. Caruso and her boyfriend, she recalls, used to joke that Stevens was the Green River killer. One day she even asked Stevens about it. "Don't start that rumor," he reportedly answered. "People around here think I'm weird enough...
...local public-housing authorities. Perhaps the most successful effort has been Operation Clean Sweep, which began at Chicago's Rockwell Gardens project. Led by the executive director of the city's housing authority, Vince Lane, the program has provided frequent drug raids by police and has planned for tenant . security patrols. Anyone entering a building is required to present a photo ID at a security desk in the lobby. Since the plan was instituted last September, the crime rate at Rockwell Gardens has dropped...