Word: landlords
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Proponents of 1-2-3 counter that owners will offer discounts to tenants, who are the only ones able to buy from them. A landlord would sell a $100,000, unit at $75,000, because under rent control it is only worth $30,000, the theory goes...
Cohn, one of the landlord representatives, said Healy governs the choice of a new board member. "The rest of us," he said, "have very little to do with...
Healy said the absence of a second tenant representative did not really affect the rent control board because the members do not neccesarily vote according to their constituencies. Ellen Semonoff, the board's chair, is neither a tenant nor a landlord and thus has no constituency, Healy said. "She will protect the interests of the right side of the issues...
...Even if I can persuade Ellen Semonoff to vote my way," Connor said, "the best the tenants can ever do is a tie vote." In order to resolve most cases, he added, Semonoff "must make deals with the landlord representatives...
Asked why a new member has not been picked after a four-month vacancy, the other landlord representative, Ackerman, said she assumes Healy has "been very, very busy" with other issues. She said some of the applicants had introduced themselves to the board and met with its executive director, but the final decision is "at Healy's discretion...