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...most serious criticisms continue to be based on a philosophical schism that has divided the council throughout the existence of rent control. While CCA members and Velluci see the need for social constrainst to protect the poor and elderly, many of the Independents continue to resent city codes which prevent landlords from dealing in the free market. Rent control, they say, subsidizes many wealthy professionals, discourages maintenance, and victimizes landlords...
...prevent rent control from falling apart, CCA members and Vellucciduring the past few years have passed a series of ordinances designed to prevent the removal of rent-controlled units from the housing market...
These tenants caught in the middle, high-income condominium owners, and developers who have been shut out of potential windfalls by the anti-condo ordinances form a powerful voting block which has CCA members running harder than ever to retain their council seats...
...CCA councilor David Wylie, considered by many to be in the greatest danger of losing his council seat, recently pleaded with a group of tenants seeking condominium removal permits to remember their former plight as rent-control tenants. "Your financial situation has changed," Wylie told the tenants, "but the members of this council pledged to preserve rent control cannot change even if it is only two weeks before the election." Mary Allen Wilkes is the chief standard-bearer of the condo forces...
...process of calculating this year's property tax bills has already been delayed several months and some challengers have charged council incumbents with intentionally postponing the release of property tax bills until after the elections. Others, such as CCA endorsed candidate Wendy Abt, maintain that the delay costs the city thousands of dollars per day, and is an example of poor management on the part of the city council...