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Water and sewer fee price increases generally force citizens to conserve, Maloney added. He cited figures from fiscal year 1988, when a large price jump resulted in a 17 percent drop in consumption...
...counsel of the Consumers Union, suggested that insurance companies and others "should spend more time figuring out how to make their products safe and less time trying to escape their responsibilities under law." Another happy group: plaintiffs' lawyers, who often receive a hefty percentage of punitive damages in contingency-fee cases against wealthy defendants...
...Also, there will be some money set aside to prevent the buildings from deteriorating. The two to five percent fee on tenants makes sense, provided that it is limited to those earning upper and middle incomes...
Michael H. Turk, co-chair of the Cambridge Tenants Union (CTU), labelled Ford's proposal "a mixed bag for tenants and for Cambridge," arguing that certain aspects of the report, such as the Affordable Housing Preservation Fund fee, are unfair, and that the proposal fails to give other issues the necessary emphasis...
...Charge a two to five percent fee on rent control tenants to create a fund for repairing deteriorating rent-controlled buildings...