Word: tented
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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During the hour-long speech, Piven made several references not only to the current Harvard-Radcliffe Clerical and Technical Workers attempt to unionize but also to the Tent City of homeless people at M.I.T. A representative of the Tent City, where 20 homeless people are currently living, asked Piven to address the group. She declined, citing a prior commitment...
...City Council last night told the Massachusetts Institute of Technology not to evict a "Tent City" of homeless people on the university's land, and adopted a new program to match vacant rent-controlled apartments with needy tenants...
Although a scheduled hearing on the "Tent City" had been postponed, the Council did approve a non-binding order asking MIT not to evict the encampment of 25 people until the university has reached an "amicable solution" to the squatters' demands...
...spokesman for the group, William O'Leary of East Boston, read a statement demanding several concessions from MIT, including the right to renovate three gutted houses next to the camp. MIT has announced plans to demolish these buildings, which have been vacant for 14 years according to the Tent City activists...
...addition, Tent City asked for the use of a van and asked MIT to study and provide for the community...