Word: rent-control
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...proponents of rent control yesterday accused Reagan's advisers of dishonesty and callousness and urged tenants to organize to preserve rent-control programs...
...standings stay as they are, with Alfred E. Vellucci hanging on to his seat and Preusser losing hers, the council will be split between the four independents and the four CCA liberals. Vellucci, not firmly aligned with either camp, but a rent-control supporter, will hold the balance of power, and probably, if he chooses, will be elected mayor...
...Students would seem to be a natural constituency" for the liberal reform slate, council challenger David Sullivan said recently, pointing to the slate's rent-control stand as one issue that might appeal to students...
...REFUSAL of the Massachusetts State Senate's Ways and Means Committee to free Chapter 842, the state-wide rent-control enabling act, for a vote by the Senate is a disgraceful abuse of power in high places. Thousands of tenants depend on the law to maintain stable rents and to prevent unfair evictions by landlords. Without it rents would almost certainly undergo an immediate hike. Keeping the bill in committee at a time when its expiration date is drawing near will kill it, and so silence the voices of tenants and their supporters in the Senate on an issue that...
...elements of the community besides lawmakers. Members of the Cambridge Rent Control Task Force, a coalition of various tenant, elderly and general interest organizations were disappointed by the council's decision to include the state bill's "luxury decontrol" clause. Under this rule, the executive body of the rent control legislation, in this case the council itself, can exempt up to 25 per cent of units from rent control as long as the apartments go for rents that are above an arbitrary limit. The clause was originally intended to deny rent-control protection to affluent tenants, who, it is argued...