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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only a loose overseer ship love the administration of the bill. The bulk of administrative duties would rest with a bureaucracy which, like all others, would be only sporadically sensitive to popular pressure. Given limited resources, such a bureaucracy would likely respond only to complaints pressed over a long period through its channels. It is doubtful that many lower income lower income residents would have the time or resources to press these complaints. Middle class, not lower class tenants, would probably have the most success in their tangles with rent control administrators...
...OTHER HAND, rent control were to be envisioned and presented as only a short term, stop-gap measure clearly subordinated to a drive for more low-cost housing, it might well aid the overall housing situation in the City. A four year period of rent control, for example, might protect to some extent the elderly, and others hardest hit by rent increases without doing irreparable damage to Cambridge's housing supply. If rent control were instituted, and a pledge was made not to try to renew it if a given number of low-income housing units were constructed...
...Harvard Graduate Student Council last week urged the Graduate Committee on Fellowships to study the feasibility of guaranteeing financial aid to graduate students beyond the present one year period...
...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...
...long essay dealing with the history of the CIA-funded Congress for Cultural Freedom, Lasch attempts to show how the sterility and lack of ideas which characterized American politics in the fifties can be traced to the enlistment of the liberal intellectuals into the Cold War struggle. During a period when they should have been formulating alternatives to the Cold War and the moratorium on domestic political controversy which accompanied it, the liberal intellectuals were allowing themselves to be herded into the cultural arsenal of the state. Within those rigid confines, they deplored Soviet repressions and "unofficial" vigilanteism at home...