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...classic example of yellow journalism, Erica Werner reported on February 13 that Cambridge landlord Edward Zucker "slammed a huge rent increase on the tenants...forcing them to search for less costly housing" and that the "price hike took most tenants by surprise...
...didn't she report landlord Zucker's statement that he spent two years negotiating with his tenants before applying to Rent Control for an increase, that he offered his tenants alternative low-rent housing and moving costs, that he spent $800,000 in repairs and renovations and has waited six years without one penny of this money reflected in his rents, and that his tenants have lived four years in "Cadillac" apartments paying "Chevrolet" rents...
...business is not to make you happy or to make any other big landlord happy or any other landlord o tenant happy," Myers told Zuker, "but to run a good rent control system in the city...
When people began to compete fiercely for affordable housing, the ones to lose out were the least resourceful: the teenage mothers, the addicted, the abused, the illiterate, the unskilled. The explosion of crack use in the '80s did immeasurable damage; once people were addicted, what employer or landlord would touch them? "Ronald Reagan and the housing cuts are a convenient way to look at the homeless problem," says Mike Neely, an engineer in Los Angeles, who squandered all he had, including his home and family, on cocaine before he turned his life around and founded the Homeless Outreach Project...
...newly homeless people rolled through the cities, emergency shelters seemed the surest and quickest way to get them off the streets. So most of the money allocated by Congress and by states went toward emergency, rather than preventive, care. Only rarely was there money for rental assistance, tenant-landlord mediation or short-term crisis loans to help the near homeless keep the roofs over their heads. Public money paid slumlords $2,000 a month to put up families in "welfare hotels." But this did nothing to ease the families' desperation, fight their addictions or restore their dignity. The emergency shelters...