Word: donning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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"I certainly don't want Proposition 1-2-3 to be passed," says one 50-year Cambridge resident. "I need to be in a rent control apartment because I'm on a limited income and Social Security."
"Landlords have the right to put in whoever they want and they'll put in people who have the money to buy the apartment," says Amy J. Fripp. "I don't think most people can afford to buy their apartments."
The tenant on Broadway, for instance, describes his family as "a young, professional, both-working couple without kids." And he says, "I don't see rent control as having affordable housing for people. They would only rent to people like us."
"My criteria are not economics," Morgan says. "I don't get people applying who appear to be in dire straights...For whatever reason people who are low-income tenants don't make it into our apartments."
"It isn't worth it to rent control. I'm losing money," she says. "If we don't get an Independent majority on the City Council...If they don't reform [rent control] so that I get a fair rent, I'm going to have to sell."