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...Council elections weren't enough, affordable housing faces another threat this fall in Proposition 1-2-3. This referendum, penned by Cambridge realtor Frederick N. Meyer, would allow tenants who have lived in rent-controlled apartments to buy them. The argument Meyer uses is that the loss of a rent-controlled apartment is offset by the gain of a new homeowner. The proposal's advocates paint the issue as one of "choice...
...fact, however, very few moderate-income renters today would be able to choose to buy their home. Carrying a mortgage on an average-priced home sucks up over half of the median income of a young family with children...
That only those who are already homeowners can afford to buy a home today has become a truism. Proposition 1-2-3, thus, would merely provide an option to moderate-income tenants that they could never afford to take. Worse, 1-2-3 would provide an incentive to landlords to drive out low-income tenents and rent instead to the wealthy, who can afford to convert apartments to condominiums...
...talk show. The two-time Democratic presidential candidate announced last week that he has signed on with a subsidiary of Warner Communications to produce Voices of America with Jesse Jackson, a weekly one-hour program that will debut in the fall of next year, if stations decide to buy it. The surprisingly early announcement may have been meant to kill rumors that Jackson may try to become mayor of Washington in the November 1990 elections. If so, it failed. While declaring once again that he had "no plans" to run in that election, he noted that "my real interest...
Just one disagreement remains to be settled between the two chambers before the legislation goes to Bush--whether to accept a Senate proposal to ban federal aid to programs that buy hypodermic needles for intravenous drug users unless the president certifies that the effort helps prevent the spread of AIDS...