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...have no reason to believe that Harvard's record as a landlord is any worse than that of others, and some reason to believe it may be better. The owners and managers of real estate are rarely loved by their tenants, nor are they in a business that encourages the most benign and altruistic practices. The Committee is of the opinion, however, that average treatment is not good enough, especially in regard to tenants who are older or burdened with families. we are, and we are judged to be, an institution devoted to humanistic values, and thus accountable to higher...
Several landlords testified that other systems of communications should be explored before any law was enacted. They pointed out that the expense for installing the system would be passed on to the tenant...
Reducing the Bill. The volunteers are doing pioneer work in a comparatively new field of law: the rights of the poor. In an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, the Legal Aid Society seeks to have the state's tenant-eviction statute declared unconstitutional because the law makes it all but impossible for the evicted persons to defend themselves in court. Volunteer lawyers are also challenging in a federal court state welfare laws that provide payments for a parent's first three children but none for any born thereafter...
...truly representative organization of public housing tenants," Connolly said. "Boston is the first city in the country to have a well-organized tenant group," he added...
Governor John A. Volpe had signed a law last May allowing a tenant to sit on the Housing Authority. Before that, no resident of a public housing project had served on the 34-year-old group...