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...City Councilor Alice K. Wolf will finish first among the CCA's six endorsed candidates. Incumbent David E. Sullivan, who finished seventh in 1983, is predicted to lose key tenant votes because of his purchase of a home in Cambridgeport and the candidacy of rent control advocate Michael H. Turk. Mayor Francis H. Duehay '55, a twenty-two year veteran politician, is expected to ease into his seat again due in large part to the popularity of his four-month term as mayor...
Michael H. Turk--37, teacher/writer, rent control activist, spokesman for the Harvard Tenants Union and the Cambridge Rent Control Coalition...
...Cambridge tenant, Turk says there is an overemphasis upon commercial development and a lack of interest in building new affordable housing in the city; he wants to strengthen rent control...
...Making those units rent controlled would place in the hands of the Rent Control Board and the City of Cambridge real power over what happens on that site," said tenant activist Michael H. Turk, a city council candidate who says he is opposed to the University's expansion into the Riverside neighborhood...
Under rent control laws, any University plans to rehabilitate the Mt. Auburn St. building would be subject to Rent Control Board review, Turk said last week...