Word: homelessness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...commercials both parties will air next year. The voters are mad as hell, and just about every candidate seems eager to harness that anger -- or at least deflect it to the other guy. Besides, TV ads are too expensive to waste on reasoned debate over the economy and the homeless. The bipartisan conclusion: keep it short -- and mean. Dan Quayle has appointed himself the "pit bull" of Bush's campaign. G.O.P. insiders boast that if Mario Cuomo runs, they've already located his Willie Horton: Arthur Shawcross, an upstate New York child killer who went on to murder 10 women...
...also urge that the council take a more active role in addressing Cambridge's homelessness problem. The city must be prepared to take up some of the slack created by state cutbacks in the shelter system. They must strengthen the support of its shelters and must begin to think creatively about ways to allow ordinary citizens and the private sector to help the homeless. One such proposal might include the creation of food vouchers individuals could give to the homeless instead of change...
...strong defender of neighborhood issues, the elderly and the homeless. His biggest contribution to the council has been his ability to bring in new ideas. Cyr has taken a hard look at using the money in the affordable housing trust fund and has created a land bank. Both programs will hopefully convert vacant city lots into low-income housing...
...voters, the staff considers it self-evident that support for rent control automatically should be a necessary requirement for election to the Cambridge City Council. Rent control is assumed to be a natural part of a social justice program that includes low-income housing and concern for the homeless in the form of Cambridge funding for shelters...
...their buildings vacant to gain tax write-offs. Price limits fixed by rent control prevent Cambridge's many small landowners from making a profit, which leads them to conclude that money invested in their buildings is wasted capital. The resulting shortage of available housing contributes to the problem of homelessness. Those interested in actually helping the poor and homeless should, therefore, vote against all proponents of rent control...