Word: control
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Walsh's opponents charge that his aggressive style is simply headline-grabbing that evades substantive issues like rent control and overdevelopment...
...groups agree on many of the issues facing the city. Both favor maintaining the city's rent control system and oppose Proposition 1-2-3, a ballot referendum that would allow tenants in some rent-controlled housing to buy their apartments. Both also support strict limits on development...
Some, like Vellucci, see themselves as progressives but do not want to ally themselves to a slate. Others are more conservative--they oppose placing limits on development and favor rent control revisions...
Meanwhile, Councillor William H. Walsh is an independent of a different sort. A real estate lawyer who is the council's most vocal critic of rent control, Walsh has come under scrutiny in recent weeks for business transactions with several city officials. And while he is not being accused of illegal activity, liberal groups like the CCA have been quick to question the propriety of his business dealings...
...there was a majority in the making, it wasn't apparent at the Board's last meeting in June. There, HRAAA's supporters couldn't muster enough support to block passage of the Young Report, a controversial set of proposals to give the University more control over future overseer elections...