Word: controled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Rent control advocates say that while the city's rent control board may not be giving landlords enough return on their investment, phasing out rent control would be disastrous to the city's low and moderate income tenants...
...question of whether prople can continue to survive in this city," Benjamin Ross, a representative of the Ward 3 Democratic Committee said. "If we lose rent control, thousands will be driven out of Cambridge," he predicted...
Ross and other rent control proponents are also supporting a bill, filed by councilor and state representative Saundra Graham, that would tighten up Cambridge's present rent control law by prohibiting owners from evicting tenants in order to convert their apartments into condominiums...
Preusser said that if rent control was abolished or condominium conversion allowed to continue, landlords could price apartments and condominiums beyond the reach of young, old, fixed-income or working class tenants; thereby robbing the city of its diversity. "I suspect that in the minds of some, a fair profit margin means as much as you can get," Preusser said...
...Rent control does not benefit the poor or elderly. It's a scare tactic used by politicians to keep themselves in office," Fraiman said last week