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...ruling is not stayed, tenants who began the process of purchasing their units before August of this year--when new, superceding city regulations further restricting conversion went into effect--will be able to purchase their homes. The 1000-unit figure comes from city councilor and tenant activist David Sullivan, who estimates 40 buildings are affected; others, including landlord attorney William Walsh, estimated yesterday that as few as 100 homes may be involved...
Councilor David Sullivan, the only tenant on the council, described Vellucci's proposal as an "attempt to strangle rent control...
Harvard's relations with the tenants it still has were tense through the spring and summer but seemed to quiet down this fall. Michael Turk, an officer of the Harvard Tenants Union, said much of the lull was due to tenant participation in the city council campaign...
...meeting December 10 will kick off the next tenant drive--to force Harvard to bear some of the costs for deferred maintenance it is only now performing. In the last year Harvard Real Estate has asked for many rent increases from the city's rent control board based on repair and improvement work it has performed...
...overturn the ordinance. If the amendment exempting two buildings was ever passed, surely any sensible judge would be tempted to throw the entire law out the window as a gross violation of equal protection. And if that happens, the condo gold rush will be on again and every tenant in the city will once more live in fear. The law protects all tenants too poor to buy their own apartments, and guarantees that there will be rental housing in the city in the years to come. No single statute, save perhaps the rent control law, is more important to Cambridge...