Word: turk
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Michael H. Turk of the Cambridge Tenants Union said federal cuts to housing puts the "majority of residents at risk...
...very time that the broad protection provided for many tenants thorough rent control has been taken away, the cuts at the federal level have jeopardized the tenants in the city who are either in expiring projects or subsidized projects or public housing," Turk said. "The protections that existed for low and moderate income tenants and moderate to middle income tenants are threatened to such a degree so that all those tenants would not be able to stay in Cambridge...
...Turk also alleges that as a Cambridge landlordhimself, Fried broke city rent control laws whilehe was Solicitor General...
...Fried had something of a personal motive inthe rent control campaign and he was notparticularly forthright about it," Turk says...
...Fried characterizes Turk's charges as thewords of someone who is angry that he was on thelosing side...