Word: controled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lease provides for a scaled rent increase from $400 to approximately $725 per month. Lorraine Wade, assistant director of marketing for the Harvard Real Estate Company, said yesterday the rent on 8 Mellon St. has not been increased for about ten years. The Rent Control Board approved the hike, she added...
...relationship between Harvard and 8 Millon St. has previously been strained. Harvard served the first eviction notice late last year. After some controversy and heated discussion, the Rent Control Board decided the notice was illegal, since the tenents had been living at 8 Mellon St. for an average of more than two weeks and were thus protected by rent control laws. The board had to approve their eviction...
Harvard officials said they did not know how long each tenant lived in the building and thought the notice was legal. On January 16 the University served a second notice in the language and format required by the Rent Control board, listing, as did the first, three grounds for eviction-- misrepresentation of tenancy, damage to property and the desire of the University to convert the building into a four-to-five family apartment unit...
However, the wish to convert a building into a family unit is not sufficient grounds for eviction under rent control...
...therefore took up the cry that technological backwardness lay at the heart of the problems of the starving masses. Surprise: the U.S. had plenty of technical know-how and capital to spare. (Overpopulation, for example, could not be a cause of poverty, Galbraith says, because the solution is birth control--politically impossible for anyone with a Catholic constituency...