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Leaders of several city tenant organizations and five of Cambridge's nine city councilors told the committee that they favored retaining rent control. "Rent control is one of a number of strategies we have to keep Cambridge a liveable city. Without rent control, the attractiveness of Cambridge to developers would very soon leave it a city of nothing but high-rises," City Councilor Mary Ellen Preusser told the panel...
...know if this can help us--unless something happens we will be evicted by the end of the summer," John Henze, one of the tenants, said yesterday. Another tenant, Charlotte Taskier, told the committee, "I have been hunting persistently to find another place. Everything else in the city has either been bought up by Harvard or turned into condominiums...
...apartment complex long considered one of the last rental havens on the city's elegant near North Side, discovered that theirs was about to become one of the largest condominium conversions ever. The buildings had been sold to a development group for $110 million. Says Barbara Molotsky, a tenant who pays $370 a month for her one-bedroom apartment and may have to hand over $50,000 to buy it: "I don't want to buy, but there just aren't any rentals left...
Joan Lorentz, a tenant and member of the Mid-Cambridge Tenants Association, said yesterday she hopes the reforms will improve fundamental problems with the way the rent control committee functions...
...tenant in the building, John MacLean, summed up the situation, "Harvard can be a very resonable place--if you get to the right people," he said...