Word: rent-control
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...city's rent-control program--which benefits the vast majority of city residents, both those who live in rent-controlled apartments and those who enjoy Cambridge's diversity--is under fire. Increasingly, big developers and landlords on the lookout for windfall profits are trying to gut the controls, though pressure on the city's housing market remains tremendous...
...city's rent-control program--which benefits the vast majority of city residents, both those who live in rent-controlled apartments and those who enjoy Cambridge's diversity--is under fire. Increasingly, big developers and landlords on the lookout for windfall profits are trying to gut the controls, though pressure on the city's housing market remains tremendous...
...councilor David Wylie, considered by many to be in the greatest danger of losing his council seat, recently pleaded with a group of tenants seeking condominium removal permits to remember their former plight as rent-control tenants. "Your financial situation has changed," Wylie told the tenants, "but the members of this council pledged to preserve rent control cannot change even if it is only two weeks before the election." Mary Allen Wilkes is the chief standard-bearer of the condo forces...
...city's rent-control ordinances prohibit developers from removing apartments from the Cambridge housing market, and some councillors have asserted that the regulations should also apply to the state-funded housing authority...
Residential tenants, especially those in rent-controlled buildings, provide the most vocal, objections to HRE policies, in part because they are largely protected from the fear of retaliation by the rent-control bureaucracy. In the past few months, activists in many Harvard buildings have come together form the HTU; and though Silverman says the group will probably "fade away" like small-building groups of the past, Turk says the HTU "has the potential to be substantial and enduring. There is a sense of tapping into a really powerful feeling among Harvard tenants...