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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Only occasionally is anything heard ??om the elderly in Cambridge. Sixty-??ree per cent of the elderly persons ??? Cambridge (those over 65) pay ???ore than half their income for rent. ???ast Wednesday's public hearing on rent increases was the first time that anyone representing the elderly spoke out on rent control. Catherine Handley of the Committee for the elderly approached the microphone after most everyone else had spoken. A young tenant jumped up to adjust the microphone for the short grey-haired lady in a prim blue pillbox hat. She didn't really say anything different from...

Author: By Joyce Heard, | Title: WHO OWNS BOARDW ALK? Playing Monopoly With Rent Control | 12/18/1970 | See Source »

...Cambridge Tenants Organizing Committee is asking Cronin harder questions and using all the confrontation tactics they can muster to ask them. Monday they held a rally in front of City Hall demanding an end to all evictions and a further downward adjustment of rents. Within the CTOC there are varying degrees of militancy. Bill Cunningham, one of the leaders of the CTOC, hasrefused since May to pay the $25 rent increase that his landlord demanded. After three attempts his landlord has finally succeeded in evicting him, but it took twenty police armed with clubs to do so. The tall, gaunt...

Author: By Joyce Heard, | Title: WHO OWNS BOARDW ALK? Playing Monopoly With Rent Control | 12/18/1970 | See Source »

...Cambridge Property Owners would certainly like to think so. Whenever rent control is discussed Carl F. Barrons, President of the Cambridge Property Owners Association, is there with a carefully prepared statement. Two weeks ago he told the City Council, "This council which had the guts and awareness to vote in rent control without any preparation should realize that it was a sad mistake and vote it out. Cambridge will become a fear-ridden and crummy second class city unless the council takes some action...

Author: By Joyce Heard, | Title: WHO OWNS BOARDW ALK? Playing Monopoly With Rent Control | 12/18/1970 | See Source »

Barrons is one of the small landlords: he owns only three buildings in Cambridge, only one of which is covered by rent control. Barrons' main business in Cambridge is a furniture store located in Putnam Square which sells all kinds, all prices and all styles of furniture...

Author: By Joyce Heard, | Title: WHO OWNS BOARDW ALK? Playing Monopoly With Rent Control | 12/18/1970 | See Source »

...Property Owners do not need these means. Their battle will be won or lost eventually in the courts. In January the Massachusetts Supreme Court will hear their suit contesting the law's constitutionality. Everyone who has played this game so far will be there. If the judge rules rent control unconstitutional the game will be all over. If not the city government, the tenants, and the landlords can continue to play Monopoly with the rent control issue. In any event the Property Owners are going to keep Park Place and Boardwalk. Rent control may eventually succeed in getting some temporary...

Author: By Joyce Heard, | Title: WHO OWNS BOARDW ALK? Playing Monopoly With Rent Control | 12/18/1970 | See Source »

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