Word: rent-control
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...lawyer," he begins, "and I don't understand all this fancy language. Sure I'll go for 'expansion' rather than 'growth.' But I do want to say here that I will support any program, any program at all, no matter what you call it, see, that gives rent-control to the poor and brings in low-cost housing for the people who need it most--just so long as it also sends Harvard and MIT packing across the river. Now if we don't do that, our future generations will be the subjects of that Harvard and they will...
...latest crisis was triggered by a strike of 7,000 apartment-house service employees-doormen, elevator operators, handymen- against the landlords of 1,500 rent-controlled dwellings. The workers, whose average weekly pay is $85, sought an $18 raise. The owners responded by demanding repeal of the city's rent-control law, an anachronistic World War II anti-inflationary measure that makes no economic sense but is beloved by voters- and politicians- because it keeps many rents below market levels. Caught in the bind, a quarter of a million tenants found themselves without hot water, heat, elevator service, garbage...
...uses household objects and pictures to put across the day's vocabulary list. Listeners hear the words again when Roman closes class with a short, slowly spoken talk in English on how to get jobs in New York, or how to take advantage of the city's rent-control laws, or where to go for an inexpensive outing. Other Ingles encouragers: clips from English training films, a daily identification-translation contest...
...cities as Chicago, San Francisco, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Minneapolis and St. Louis, which have no local rent control laws, most landlords were planning to raise rents a minimum of 10% to 15%. On lower-priced apartments, increases might run as high as 80%. Many cities set up Fair Rent Committees,' which will try to mediate disputes between landlords and tenants, but without real enforcement powers. Fearful that rent gouging would provoke enactment of local rent-control laws, the bigger real estate men announced that they would hold increases down to 10 or 15%, pleaded with other landlords to do likewise...
...Wilson said he was confident that the Critical Areas Committee, composed of representatives from five defense agencies, "was operating efficiently." To end the feuding, Wilson appointed Raymond M. Foley, head of the Federal Housing & Home Finance Agency, as head man of all defense-housing activities, including Woods's rent-control department...