Word: controll
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...says Graham's campaign accuses Thompson of being "in the pocket of developers" and against rent control. Albano charges that Thompson supports Proposition 1-2-3, a 1989 municipal ballot question that would make it easier to take apartments off of rent control. But Thompson said he has oppossed the measure since he heard of it in September...
...case, Thompson says the controversy is irrelevant because "there's no function for the state representative in terms of rent control." He says Graham wants to "cloud the issue of the state representative's function" by emphasizing her stands on rent control, he says, adding that rent control is not as big an issue as it once...
Thompson said he worries that most of the developers in the Cambridge real estate market want to build commercial projects and condominiums, not apartments subject to rent control...
...even talking about moderate-income housing here anymore," he said, adding that it is politically necessary for any Cambridge candidate to support rent control because of high rents and the housing shortage...
Thompson ran for City Council in 1979 with an endorsement from the Cambridge Civic Association (CCA). At that time, he told the Cambridge Chronicle, "I favor rent control and I'm against condominium conversion." But he qualified his position, adding, "I will seek to reform the procedures of the rent control board...