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...ties binding the Convention candidates together is their common position on general housing policy--rent control, the halting of condominium conversion and of vacancy decontrol. The reformers believe the continuation of rent control will help to preserve the distinct ethnic and social neighborhoods in Cambridge and to protect moderate and lower income residents from rent inflation caused by the desire of more affluent people--some of them Harvard-affiliated--to rent or buy property in Cambridge...
Clem, the only incumbent who works full-time at the council, also thinks rent control has been blown out of proportion. He supports it in principle, but favors what he calls "conditional decontrol" of owner-occupied four, five and six family apartments (assuming owner participation in non-profit home improvement programs and certification that rent increases will not take rents out of the middle income range...
Clem favors conditional decontrol that would exempt four- to six-unit, owner-occupied buildings if the landlord makes specific improvements and convinces the board the increase does not remove the unit from the low or moderate income housing supply. He has not moved for this change on the council floor, Clem says, because that might give the appearance he is caving into the independents. So Clem says he will wait until after the results are in and consider the vote to be partly a referendum on the idea. Some critics argue that acting on the suggestion would have a much...
Crane supports vacancy rent decontrol. He says the purpose of rent control is to protect "low and middle income people, and elderly residents, who do not move around." Vacancy decontrol will not hurt these tenants, Crane says, but it will free up other apartments so that landlords can charge a fairer rent. These other apartments are now occupied by young professional people, "who can pay a fair market price," he says...
...compromise. "Last night did some good," he said. "Psychologically, it made us all realize we had to find a solution." The one he found was a proposal by Henry ("Scoop") Jackson to raise the price ceiling to $2.03-higher than the Carter plan but lower than what decontrol advocates figured the free-market price would be ($2.75 to $3.25). Byrd won the approval of Abourezk and Metzenbaum for the Jackson compromise. But the Senators who favor decontrol refused to go along. To block the compromise -and prevent a move to freeze prices at the current ceiling-they began their...