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Instead of rent control for example, Caragianes favors capped vacancy decontrol (allowing rent hikes slightly larger than inflation), but only in cases where elderly and fixed income or long-term residents of the city wouldn't be harmed...
Clinton, who served four terms on the school committee and one term, two years ago, on the City Council, said while condominium conversion provides more tax revenue, it decreases housing for poorer residents. A plan of vacancy decontrol and limitations of conversions in specific areas might counteract those problems, Clinton contends...
...rent control opponent, Crane favors instead vacancy decontrol, which he says will provide adequate protection for elderly tenants...
Danehy, who has held the city's top spot since his narrow election by fellow councilors in 1977, has moderated his once hard-line stand on rent control, and now supports a policy of vacancy decontrol--letting landlords raise rents after tenants have moved...
...supporter of rent control, Frisoli is calling instead for vacancy decontrol "with tough penalties for landlords who force tenants...