Word: law
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What Cambridge needs in more housing, particularly more law rent housing, to relieve immediate needs, but also higher cost housing to avert such potential pressure on the present low-rent stock. Rent control should be considered in the light of its effects on the overall housing stock of the City, and effect, at least in the long run, is likely to be negative...
...Compete for rent-controlled apartments, thus increasing the incentives for landlords under rent control to evade the law...
...that rent control can remain indefinitely in effect in Cambridge. The state's home rule provision limit its duration to four years. After that, the law must be renewed. Though the rent control referendum has remained generally quiet on the subject of renewal, the strong stress their literature places upon rent control as a solution to the housing problem, and private comments on the possibility of renewal, indicate that the campaign envisions an attempt to keep rent control in effect for a long term. As such, it is clearly a misguided effort...
...stop the city from building; on the contrary it should encourage more building by forcing speculators out the making more sites available. Further it would free tenants from fear that complaints about building code violations will bring a rent increase, a common practice in the past. The rent control law is a four-year proposal, and if after that period it appears that construction of low cost units has brought the housing situation under control, the law could be allowed to expire...
...until that can be accomplished the city must institute a strict rent control law. All registered voters should sign the rent control petition, and all landlords, including Harvard and M.I.T., should act as if rent control were already in effects...