Word: cca
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Since then, students have become an integral part of the liberal progressive faction that has championed issues of social and economic justice in Cambridge. With votes of students, the city councilors backed by the Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) have been able to remain in a precarious balance of power with city conservatives...
...result of that balance has been the maintenance of Cambridge as a demographically and economically diverse city. The CCA councilors have defended the city's strict rent control ordinance from various attacks, passed a regulation limiting condominium conversion, used zoning to control commercial development that destabilizes fragile neighborhoods, and fought for jobs to Cantabridgians in companies setting here...
...CCA has endorsed a strong slate of five candidates, including incumbents Francis H. Duehay '55, State Rep. Saundra Graham (D-Cambridge). David E. Sullivan, David A. Wylie and challenger Alice Wolf. All have committed themselves to continuing the goals of the association's platform...
...split. But both sides agree that, with 70 percent of the city considered tenants, the referendum will easily pass. Whether it will mean anything hangs on the city council elections on the same day. If the current even split between the conservative Independents and the progressive Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) continues, it will be tough to actually enact the provisions. The Cambridge City Council actually voted down the proposal in August, but CRCC organizers gathered enough signatures on their petition to insure inclusion of the measure on the ballot...
...Even CCA-endorsed Councilor David A Wylie is opposed. "I'm in favor of its general aims and objectives, but I think capping itself is illegal," Wylie says. He explains that the Cambridge Rent Control Enabling Act, the state law that in 1973 made rent control possible, requires that landlords give a fair return on their investments...