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...young black woman, Beverly Williams, for the "humiliation, frustration, anxiety and nervousness" she suffered when she was barred from renting an apartment. The landlord was ordered both to quit discriminating and to pay the $200 in damages. In a similar New Jersey case last year, a rejected black tenant was awarded $500 for humiliation. If such awards continue, landlords may conclude that desegregation is cheaper than discrimination...
...will be renting the Mandrake site for $9000 per year, a 100 per cent increase. The new tenant is William A. Turtle, owner of an antique store in Putnam Square which is being forced to relocate...
Landlord opposition to the law centered on the constitutionality suit up until Monday, and occasional statements at City Council meetings by Carl F. Barron, chairman of the Cambridge Property Owners' Association. However, as tenant politicking has grown more confrontation-oriented, spearheaded by the Cambridge Tenants' Organizing Committee, so has the tone of landlord lobbying. Thursday night William H. Walsh, speaking for the newly formed Cambridge Taxpayers' Association, threatened a taxpayer strike unless Cronin's guidelines are adhered to. Although the theories are completely opposed, the landlord threat begins to sound like tenant action earlier this year in which tenants spontaneously...
Vellucci is more willing, however, to listen to clean-cut tenant attorney Philip Shaw. At Monday's meeting Vellucci designated Shaw as his official spokesman to go and question Cronin about the fair net income standard. Although Cronin did not speak with him. Shaw was able to question him for an hour and a half at Thursday night's open meeting. Shaw managed to function as a spokesman for tenant interests while still being able to maintain the support of Vellucci and the City Councillors. He has done his research well, he appears before the Council in a suit...
Last week Cronin issued a statement which set the fair profit rate for a landlord at between 10 and 15 per cent of the market value of the property. Tenant groups throughout Cambridge have attacked this standard as one which will again cause rents to spiral. The Cambridge City Council has called for a hearing on the matter at 8 p. m. tonight...