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...DOUGLAS OKUN...
...Douglas Okun, an architect and a resident of Cambridge for a decade, has never run for city office before...
...background in architecture and planning gives me an edge over other candidates in solving housing problems," Okun says. He cites housing as the major issue in this year's campaign, and advocates ending rent control in favor of a vacancy decontrol program with federal rent subsidies for low incorae families...
...Okun supports development of new housing on unused land, expansion of the city's tax base, and protection of the elderly from condominium conversion...
...Very little is going on besides trying to get reelected," council incumbent Mary Ellen Preusser said Thursday. "I had no idea what hard work this was going to be," Douglas Okun, a frazzled first-time challenger for a council seat, said...