Word: controls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week, graying but as kinetic as ever at 47, Mayor Lindsay asked New Yorkers to give him four more years to try to bring the nation's unruliest city under control. Flanked by such Republican icons as former Governor Thomas E. Dewey and Mrs. Fiorello La Guardia, Lindsay announced his candidacy. "I run because too much, much too much, is at stake to abandon the effort my administration has begun," Lind say said. "I believe the tide of physical and spiritual decay has been turned...
...Cambridge the City, with Federal help, is the only agency which will build low cost housing anyway, since it is not very profitable, and rent control will not stop the city from building; on the contrary it should encourage more building by forcing speculators out the making more sites available. Further it would free tenants from fear that complaints about building code violations will bring a rent increase, a common practice in the past. The rent control law is a four-year proposal, and if after that period it appears that construction of low cost units has brought the housing...
Most importantly, the rent control drive will mobilize a segment of the community whose interests have been too long ignored. Winning rent control will not be the end of the housing fight. It is obvious that the real answer to the problem lies in the construction of more low rent units, and this must be the next step...
...until that can be accomplished the city must institute a strict rent control law. All registered voters should sign the rent control petition, and all landlords, including Harvard and M.I.T., should act as if rent control were already in effects...
...that once you get the country people "urbanized" they will not go back to the countryside, and that once you strengthen the South Vietnamese army, presumbaly it will be able to keep out the communists. Thus will have some basis for a negotiated settlement, probably with the Viet Cong controlling certain areas in the countryside and with the Allied side in control of the cities and towns...