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Some of Detroit's blacks and Polish Americans, rep resenting the city's largest minorities, are coming to gether, somewhat gingerly, to push for a ward system of elect ingcity council members, who are now elected at large...
Last week, the Cambridge Housing Convention, which had unsuccessfully addressed its own drive for rent control to the City Council supported a "yes" vote vote for rent control in November. The convention emphasized, however, that it was not endorsing the Peace and Freedom Party or its radical politics...
Acting City Clerk Paul Healy certified the results of the signatures count yesterday, and has sent the petition to the City Council which now has 20 days either to accept it without amendments or put it up to the voters' decision in November...
...council is now in its summer recess and a special meeting will have to be called to act upon the rent control petition. Yesterday, there was speculation that a meeting might be called for later this week...
After the decision on rent control became clear last Monday, several councillors asked the housing convention members to "sit down together with the council" to map out a concrete program on housing. The request may go unanswered, for much, perhaps too much blood has been shed over rent control in recent days...