Word: controllables
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Look at condominium control and rent control. New housing can do something positive," Agee says. Building more housing and attracting nonpolluting industry can ease the pressure of the housing crunch and pump in new revenues for the city, he adds...
...president of the Portuguese Cultural Society has run a big money campaign that may win him many votes. Although he has been endorsed by the anti-rent control Cambridge Homeowners and Taxpayers, Bentubo says he favors the program. "I just want to exempt four-, five-, and six-family owner-occupied houses," he adds. Two-and three-family owner-occupied houses are already exempt...
Instead of rent control for example, Caragianes favors capped vacancy decontrol (allowing rent hikes slightly larger than inflation), but only in cases where elderly and fixed income or long-term residents of the city wouldn't be harmed...
...rent control opponent, Crane favors instead vacancy decontrol, which he says will provide adequate protection for elderly tenants...
Danehy, who has held the city's top spot since his narrow election by fellow councilors in 1977, has moderated his once hard-line stand on rent control, and now supports a policy of vacancy decontrol--letting landlords raise rents after tenants have moved...