Word: condo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...program in her speech to the convention. And she said this: "Some sympathetic observers have pointed out that rent control may not be the best or the only way to protect low and moderate income people...Without better data, it is impossible to insist on rent control and condo controls in exactly their current forms." Saying that to a room full of tenant activists was not wise; better for a fundamentalist preacher to tell his flock that the whale didn't really swallow Jonah. Enacting rent control in 1970 was a tremendous struggle; maintaining it since then has been just...
...city's elite dwell in condominiums, and it is at least possible that out of a sense of identification, they will support the right of others to purchase their apartments, a right denied under existing city legislation designed to protect the city's rental housing stock. A test of condo owner sentiments will be support for Mary Allen Wilkes in the November election. A former CCA member, Wilkes now is billed as the "condo candidate," and has spoken out in favor of removing restrictions on the right of tenants to buy their apartments. Though she is given little chance...
...meaningless. The pressure on the city's housing market is great enough that within a decade, most forecasters conclude, the bulk of city apartments would have become condominiums. Rents might still be controlled, but very few people would be paying them. And so the dispute over condo conversion seems the likeliest battleground for tenants and developers to fight it out. For the ideological reasons outlined above, large parts of the traditional CCA constituency may become supporters of the developers; if they do, the pressures on CCA candidates may become enormous. The demands of tenant activists will have to be compromised...
...stay radical; they're looking out for themselves. Even the bridges between the two groups are tenuous. Though David Sullivan led all CCA candidates at the polls two years ago, there were more than a few people accusing him of going to extremes when he tried to tighten the condo restrictions this spring...
Mary Allen Wilkes, who has billed herself as the "condo candidate" in the race, "will have to spend a lot of energy trying to tell people that she was not responsible" for the leaflet, a campaign worker, Wesley Clark, said yesterday...