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...York, for example, the standard gives a landlord 81/2 per cent on fair market value and allows a two per, cent deduction for depreciation as an expense. This is lower than even the lowest limit of the Cronin standard...
...applied for any adjustments on Harvard properties that come under rent control, he expects that he may do so for individual properties. However, the increases he would apply for would not be on the 10 to 15 per cent basis: they would be around five per cent. Clearly Cronin's standard is much too high...
Although rent control has not yet served to bring any large measure of rent relief to tenants it has at leastfunctioned to bring out the effects of different political techniques in the city. The administration of the law by Corcoran and Cronin is another example of one of the main techniques of city government: delay...
...Barron, chairman of the Cambridge Property Owners' Association. However, as tenant politicking has grown more confrontation-oriented, spearheaded by the Cambridge Tenants' Organizing Committee, so has the tone of landlord lobbying. Thursday night William H. Walsh, speaking for the newly formed Cambridge Taxpayers' Association, threatened a taxpayer strike unless Cronin's guidelines are adhered to. Although the theories are completely opposed, the landlord threat begins to sound like tenant action earlier this year in which tenants spontaneously rolled back their rents despite Cronin's order to the contrary...
Vellucci is more willing, however, to listen to clean-cut tenant attorney Philip Shaw. At Monday's meeting Vellucci designated Shaw as his official spokesman to go and question Cronin about the fair net income standard. Although Cronin did not speak with him. Shaw was able to question him for an hour and a half at Thursday night's open meeting. Shaw managed to function as a spokesman for tenant interests while still being able to maintain the support of Vellucci and the City Councillors. He has done his research well, he appears before the Council in a suit...