Word: conventionalize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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It was a showdown in every sense of the word. Scuffles erupted in the council corridors between opponents and supporters of rent control. Women wept. Men cursed. Some women cursed. When the council, for the second time, voted down the convention's bill, for its supporters it was as if...
Moreover, leaders of the housing convention--formed last September by the CEOC, the local anti-poverty agency--could not, even if they wanted to, which most probably didn't-moderate these emotions. The housing convention had lapsed into a period of inactivity after its formation and initial pleas to the...
Thus, the appeal of rent control as an issue--and the need to keep the housing convention going--made it likely that many a sign would be waved and many a voice would be raised on the issue. Yet more general factors--the style of Cambridge politics and the idea...
Packed council chambers are always likely to spark symbolic confrontations, and the chambers were very packed indeed during the rent control debate. In large part, this was due to the idea behind the entire housing convention movement, an idea currently popular with Federal agencies in Cambridge and elsewhere--"citizen participation...
Though the housing convention supporters regarded the defeat of their bill as a tragedy, the real tragedy of the Cambridge housing crisis may be only beginning. The next few months may well be ones of lost opportunities for Cambridge; chances to alleviate the housing crisis are likely to slip away...