Word: controls
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...Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard Law School, Sullivan works as an attorney for the secretary of state. A loser by only eight votes in his first council bid a year ago, he has won the endorsement of both the Cambridge Civic Association and the Rent Control Task Force...
...Sullivan, the finances of the city are of vital importance. "It is crucial to have the revenue which the real estate tax brings in," he says. "With rent control we just don't get sufficient income to keep taxes down...
Vellucci, while not a member of the Cambridge Civic Association, has supported rent control for years. "You've got to be black, you've got to be poor, you've got to be ethnic to feel it," he told a Kennedy School crowd Saturday night...
...other ways, though, Wylie is similar to fellow council liberals. He has voted with them on rent control and condominium conversion, although he argued last year that neighborhoods should have more say in planning their future...
...several terms, progressive candidates, most of whom rally under the standard of the Cambridge Civic Association (CCA), have held on to a slippery five-man majority. That one-vote edge accounts for rent control in the city of Cambridge. It is also responsible for recently passed limits on condominium conversion. And in large part, those votes have kept City Manager James L. Sullivan at the helm of the city administration...