Word: controllers
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Activists presented a 12-point plan designed to help make rent control a statewide issue, while others reminded the gathering that the EFZ had succeeded in getting the city council to declare a housing emergency last February...
Also important to the EFZ at this point is media attention. "The media must focus both on the problem and on possible solutions," Cavellini said. Cavellini stressed the importance of increasing involvement on the part of city councillors and the community on the issue of rent control. He cited the need to pressure city council candidates to work actively for rent control at the state and local level...
Cavellini said that if the EFZ continued their twelve-step program, they could win the rent control battle. "We will have the victory that we have to have to allow working class people to stay in the city," he said...
...written statement read at the meeting, Cambridge resident Louise Dunlap said she supported the EFZ's methods. "I really appreciate the spirit of activism that brought rent control to Cambridge and kept it going," she said. "To deal with [the problem] we need to think big, and that's what the eviction free zone does...
Linda Rousseau, another Cambridge resident, cited the fact that although the focus of the rent control debate is on poor families, low- to moderate-income households also have trouble paying their rent...