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Article: TENANTS SEEK WAYS TO BLOCK CONVERSIONS
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- February 9, 1987
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LEXINGTON - In an attempt to keep their townhouse
apartments from being turned into high-priced condominiums, more
than 200 residents of the 150-unit Emerson Garden Apartment complex
met yesterday with town officials and representatives of tenants'
organizations.
"If this goes through, many people who have lived in this
town a long time will be forced to leave," said Richard Eaton, a
26-year resident of Lexington, who has lived in the complex for the
last several years.
The Emerson Garden Apartments, which makes up about 45 percent
of the rental units in Lexington, is primarily a housing complex
for elderly people and young families, said Rev. Walter Cuenin of
the Lexington Clergy ...