Word: controls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some of them have managed to hike up rents so much in their rent-controlled buildings that poor and even moderateincome tenants have been forced to leave, and one is a fixture at evictions at the Rent Control Board. Some are slum landlords with extremely poor tenants, who let buildings run down, and do not even fix leaking roofs...
Since 1-2-3 proposes a change in rent control laws to enable tenants to buy their apartments as condos and then occupy them, many landlords would be casting an eye around for wealthier tenants--who would agree to buy their apartment when they move in, maybe even on a time plan...
...these condos would be removed from rent control permanently, and could be rented at high market rates. Landlords could also continue a trend to "condo rehab," extensively renovating buildings in the hope they will go condo, clearing apartments of poorer tenants when rents go up--as they inevitably will...
...current tenants who won't buy? Brookline, which last year repealed a similar law, illustrates this danger: the Brookline Rent Control Board and tenant activists heard that tenants were "encouraged" to leave if they didn't want to buy. And the problem of harassment is difficult to prove and even harder to stop...
...think with the four teams here, we'll be playing college hockey as it should be played," Cornell Coach Brian McCutcheon said. "A skating game, aggressive, but under control...