Word: lowe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...STALKING MOON. Gregory Peck dashes around the hills of New Mexico pursuing and being pursued by a vengeful and ingenious Indian. Everything is terribly low-key and occasionally mannered, but there are some superb chills all the same...
...response of the large institutions and the city government to the plight of the poor has been inadequate. Efforts have been misdirected and poorly coordinated. Last Monday the City Manager announced the formation of a task force to mount a coordinated effort to find low cost housing sites. But even if this effort is a success it will be several year before its effects are felt, and by then it may be too late...
...discourage the building of new housing. Landlords try to advisor making any improvements since they have a difficult time raising rents because of them. These are experiences which cities like New York have has with rent control, and they have laced many people to emphasize the need for low cost housing instead in rent control...
...Cambridge the City, with Federal help, is the only agency which will build low cost housing anyway, since it is not very profitable, and rent control will not 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...
Most importantly, the rent control drive will mobilize a segment of the community whose interests have been too long ignored. Winning rent control will not be the end of the housing fight. It is obvious that the real answer to the problem lies in the construction of more low rent units, and this must be the next step...