Word: control
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Proposition 2 would exempt from rent control single-family homes and condominiums which have been lived in by their owners for more than two years...
...Proposition 1-2-3 offers the city of Cambridge the chance and the choice, without repealing rent control at all, to enact three modest reforms in our current housing policy...
This is still a good deal for landlords, since their buildings are now so depressed in value by the effects of rent control, they now receive, in selling a whole building, only 15-25 percent of what the normal market value would be. Proposition I will offer some tenants affordable homeownership, from $40,000 to $80,000, way below the market price of other Cambridge condominiums...
Proposition 2 exempts your own home from rent control, if you rent it out after you buy it. Rent control will continue to apply, just as before, to large buildings and landlords. But after you owner-occupy your single-family home or condominium for two years, you will be exempted from restrictions. This may actually increase the supply of rental housing, because owners who now sometimes keep their house vacant (rather than risk tying up their own home with complicated regulations) will now be able to rent without fear...
...When things are going well you are treated very well in the NHL, but if things aren't going that great they become a little careless in how they treat you--sending you to the minors, getting down on you," MacDonald said. "You just don't have any control. That's a down side...