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Most rent control opponents react to conversion by calling for either a prohibition of evictions by landlords who want to convert apartments of by going further and placing a limit on conversions. City Councilor David Clem says the rent control board approved only four requests for eviction by converting landlords between January and September of 1977. Conversion opponents claim, however, that landlords are frightening many more tenants who do not know their legal rights or are just too afraid to exercise them...
Following the usual split, Councilors Barbara Ackerman, Francis H. Duehay '55, Saundra Graham and Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci voted for the curbs, while independents Clem, Daniel J. Clinton, Thomas W. Danehy, Leonard J. Russell and Walter J. Sullivan opposed all but the weakest of the petitions...
What further compounds the already present threats to rent control is that if he wins reelection, Clem says he will propose a rent control "improvement" that, while it would not gut the existing laws, would loosen them and impress many as opening the door to more extensive changes...
...Clem favors conditional decontrol that would exempt four- to six-unit, owner-occupied buildings if the landlord makes specific improvements and convinces the board the increase does not remove the unit from the low or moderate income housing supply. He has not moved for this change on the council floor, Clem says, because that might give the appearance he is caving into the independents. So Clem says he will wait until after the results are in and consider the vote to be partly a referendum on the idea. Some critics argue that acting on the suggestion would have a much...
...question of rent control and its off-shoot, condominium conversion, has fueled the election fires somewhat, creating much more heat than light. Since Clem has taken on the role of a fence-sitter, the council has left the future of rent control in a state of inertia. During one of the council's rhetorical debates of the subject, Graham said, "This doesn't mean very much at all because we don't have five votes for anything." Whatever the outcome of tomorrow's election, there will finally be five votes in the council to decide the issue of rent control...