Word: controled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...council majority is lobbying for a state bill, introduced by Graham, that would tighten up rent control by ending the eviction of tenants for condominium conversion...
Vellucci, the council's swing vote--who once filed a motion to institute vacancy decontrol--told a jeering crowd at the council hearing, "You're damn right I'm supporting rent control...If it's one thing I've got a reputation for, it's guts...
Graham, one of a five-member council majority opposing the end of rent control, argues that allowing unlimited rents would drive out poor and elderly tenants, making Cambridge a city of wealthy professionals, and would inflate land values creating pressure for large-scale development...
...took 50 years for the Irish to wrest control from the Yankees in this city. Now you're trying to hand it right back," Councilor Alfred E. Velucci told Richard Fraiman, head of a landlord organization...
Both sides face a showdown. City Councilor Mary Ellen Preusser, an opponent of rent control, says. "The challenge is to find some way to be fair to landlords and at the same time keep Cambridge a livable city." And, she might have added, to do it before election...