Word: campaigns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Such behavior cannot be stopped by the law alone, but only by the enforcement of the law--a fact which the referendum organizers themselves acknowledge by calling for a continued enforcement campaign...
...many housing units in the City would fall under rent control and how many would remain exempt. The pressure on housing created by the lack of new construction would flow in many directions, but in any case this stagnation would have important implications--ones seemingly ignored by the referendum campaign--on the cost of all types of housing available in Cambridge...
...years. After that, the law must be renewed. Though the rent control referendum has remained generally quiet on the subject of renewal, the strong stress their literature places upon rent control as a solution to the housing problem, and private comments on the possibility of renewal, indicate that the campaign envisions an attempt to keep rent control in effect for a long term. As such, it is clearly a misguided effort...
...present, a drive for low income housing project appears to be a distant project for the referendum organizers; it's a take, they think, to be attacked after rent control has been won, and a campaign has been waged for enforcement of housing codes. This strategy is patently infeasible. Once the "victory" of rent control is won, the bulk of neighborhood residents will likely rest on their dubious laurels, perhaps forever, at least until it becomes obvious that rent control has not helped the housing situation. By then it will be too late. Most of Cambridge's residents will have...
...same time, the practical political power that Reagan can wield has been growing. When Reagan took over, the Board of Regents was still dominated by Pat Brown-appointed liberals. Still angry about the '66 campaign defeat, the liberals smacked down several Reagan proposals in early 1967. But natural turnover has taken its toll since then. And this fall, when Republican victories in the state legislature gave Reagan men a few more ex officio seats on the Board of Regents, Reagan finally had a firm majority...