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...effort by a city councilor to invalidate a Cambridge regulation that prevents rent-control housing from being converted to condominiums has drawn criticism from his colleagues...
...Councilor William H. Walsh, who won his seat in 1985 as an opponent of rent control, said last week that he hopes to use a provision of a council ordinance to end the protection of rent-control apartments...
...that that's non-sense," Councilor Francis H. Duehay '55 said of Walsh's assertion. "There is a tremendously tight housing market in Cambridge, and the lifting of the ordinance would mean that a tremendous number of apartments would be converted to condominiums," he said...
CRCB Assistant Councilor Donna Tuhey added that "there has been construction in Cambridge [since 1970], but I doubt it's significant--there's not a lot of space in Cambridge...
...Councilor Alice Wolf noted that the past decade's censuses have shown a steady decrease in the city's population, from about 95,000 people in 1980 to about 87,000 in last year's census. "It seems almost impossible to me that there would be more rental units now than there were then. Where would they put them?" she asked, adding that condominium conversions have reduced the number of rentals tremendously in recent years...