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...black community agreed to serve on the Manager's committee, they were careful from the beginning to keep the purpose clear. Saundra Graham, a representative from the Riverside neighborhood, objected to the vague wording of the Manager's proposal and she and the City Solicitor, Philip M. Cronin, sat down and reworded the order to make it more specific...
EVER SINCE the Cambridge City Council adopted Rent Control last September City Manager John Corcoran and Interim Rent Control Administrator Philip M. Cronin have delayed implementation of the law. Corcoran has never appointed a full-time administrator, and he fired Joseph A. Spadafora, a young lawyer hired as Executive Director, after only one week on the job, Cronin began his administration by temporarily adjusting all rents to the current level, a move of questionable legal status, and now that the rollback provision has finally been implemented, he has come up with a formula to determine rent adjustments that will mean...
...Cronin is not anxious to remain as In?irem Rent Control Administrator. The post is a full-time job and he already has a private law practice and the important part-time job of giving all the legal opinions for the city as City Solicitor. But these other commitments cannot justify his handling of the administration to date. His recent definition of the "fair net income" clause in the rent control law is one example of his consistently conservative approach to rent control...
Although he says his definition is a temporary one, it was made without conducting a public hearing as he earlier promised. By defining fair net income as between 10 and 15 per cent of the current market value of a property, Cronin has opened the door for landlords to justify rent increases. Although the mathematics of determining fair net income are quite complex, the point can be understood by comparing the Cambridge standard to standards in other cities...
...Cronin sat calmly and folded his hands while Robert Pearlman, another spokesman for the C. T. O. C. hollered "Now you're going to listen to me. This is just like everything else you've tried to do with this law. The government is giving protection to the landlord's profitability and speculation, not relief for the oppressed tenants...