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...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...
EARLIER this month, a group of Harvard graduates--including parents, lawyers, professors and community activists--gathered in Harvard Hall to share their experiences. One lawyer told of how she has represented poor tenants and abused women who cannot afford a lawyer. Another told of spearheading tenant activism on behalf of affordable rents. Another described his long hours as a public defender...
Some Harvard expansion policies were slowed by the strike of '69 and the rent-control and tenant activism which partly derived from it. The University Road apartments, and issue in the strike, have remained standing for 20 years. But Harvard's negative role in the Cambridge housing market has continued. According to the Cambridge Tenants Union, Harvard's lawyers and real estate managers have become experts at using loopholes in the rent-control laws to raise rents and "gentrify" apartments, worsening the affordable housing crisis in Cambridge. We also note that Harvard was recently in the news for welding over...