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...proponents of Proposition 1-2-3 fool you. It is not about homeownership, although phrasing it that way is a clever ploy. Proposition 1-2-3 is a well-funded effort aimed at the erosion of rent-control. Its sponsors are only concerned with the profits that condo sales and resales could generate...

Author: By Stacie Marinelli, | Title: A Crippling Blow to Rent Control | 3/11/1989 | See Source »

Adding further excitement to the 1989 race is the presence on the ballot of Proposition 1-2-3, a binding referendum whose chief provision would let rent-control tenants buy their units as condominiums after living there two years or more...

Author: By Martha A. Bridegam, | Title: A Watershed Year in Cambridge Politics | 1/27/1989 | See Source »

...described himself as "more moderate" than Graham. He also said he would favor Proposition 1-2-3, but only with safeguards that would protect minority and low-income citizens from "being squeezed out" by rent-control landlords interested in prospective condominium buyers...

Author: By Martha A. Bridegam, | Title: A Watershed Year in Cambridge Politics | 1/27/1989 | See Source »

...University was not making profits or losses on the rent-controlled property at the time of the October sale, said Sheldon G. Tandler, comptroller of Harvard Real Estate, which managed the building. "Harvard is not involved in maintaining rent-control property for a profit. In fact, it breaks even. It operates the property to break even," he said...

Author: By Carolyn J. Sporn, | Title: Harvard Lost Little When Selling Rent-Controlled Housing Units | 11/17/1988 | See Source »

...addition, Kennedy said she feared the new owners would try to attract many of the subsidized tenants because they would be more profitable--and that the effort would push out rent-control tenants who could not afford market-rate rents but did not qualify for the subsidies...

Author: By Carolyn J. Sporn, | Title: Housing Group Buys Harvard Building | 11/15/1988 | See Source »

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