Word: rent-control
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...whose post is largely ceremonial but includes a vote on the School Committee--is selected from among the nine city councillors. Cambridge's council is split between four liberal Cambridge Civic Association members, four more conservative Independents, and the non-aligned Vellucci, who typically sides with the CCA on rent-control and housing issues, which are among the thorniest the council deals with...
Although the rent-control law exempts new construction, Real Estate Broker and Investor John Parks, 33, insists that "nobody is going to risk his life savings to build housing in a city where the council is as socialistic and kooky as this one." Parks notes that one council member, Valerie Terrigno, 32, has been indicted on federal embezzlement charges. Another, Stephen Schulte, 39, has posed for a gay magazine, a third, Mayor John Heilman, 28, sprayed a blue stripe in his hair and dressed in a flowing white robe for a political gala. On top of all that, the whole...
While referendum Question 2 calls on Cambridge voters to voice their feelings about Harvard selling off its property to escape rent-control, candidates for City Council and community activists continue to target what they say is the threat of University expansion...
...response to landlords who wanted to remove rent-control constraints, he asked, "What about the people who are already in Manhattan? Do you just force them out and tell them it's nothing personal, just free-market forces at work?" While the Times editorial page spoke about the nuisance of ghetto kids trying to earn a few dimes by washing windshields, Schanberg put David Rockefeller and Alfonse D'Amato in the spotlight, questioning their role in trying to bulldoze Westway through a city of concerned citizens...
City Councilor David E. Sullivan will chair hearings next month on the University's property divestment, which he claims displaces previously protected tenants in favor of faculty members whose purchase of property removes it from rent-control...