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Graham, an active supporter of local tenant groups, will also appear on the November ballot as an independent, nonpartisan candidate for state representative...
...move to mollify Cambridge tenants, City Manager Sullivan announced early this month that nine representatives of local tenant groups would act as a screening committee to select Castriotta's replacement. The move appeared to further insure the possibility of reforming the CHA in the next fiscal year...
...State Legislature in June passed a nine-month extension of a current "local-option" rent control law, making the expiration date of the law January 1, 1976, instead of April 1975. The action drew the criticism of local tenant groups Hard Times and the Cambridge Tenants Organizing Committee and members of the state Rent Control Task Force, a coalition of tenant groups in Massachusetts...
...Tenant organizers branded the legislative action "unsatisfactory" because of the short term extension, omission of controls for federally-funded housing projects and inclusion of an allegedly "irrelevant" study...
Following the state action, Jeane Winner of CTOC said: "Tenant groups are sprouting up all over the state, and landlords are complaining everywhere that rent control is a troublemaker. They think if they kill the law they can kill the movement...