Word: rent-controlled
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During its existence, the party-generally similar in outlook to the Worker-Student Alliance of SDS-began a campaign for a rent-control referendum in the City, obstructed several evictions by Cambridge landlords, and ran two unsuccessful candidates for local office...
...houses are left empty partly because the role of slum landlord has become less and less profitable. New York City landlords cite the abandoned buildings as proof of a financial squeeze, and reason enough for the city to repeal its rent-control law, which has frozen rents at below-market levels since...
Aside from Crane's fall in the standings, the biggest surprise in the elections was the low turnout; there were only about 25,000 votes cast on Tuesday, down for some 31,000 in 1967. Splinter candidates running on rent-control platforms generally did poorly, indicating that the bitter battle over the issue failed to draw many new voters to the polls...
...section of Soc Rel 149. The department said that Peace and Freedom Party members could lead a section on "Community Organizing: The Fight For Rent Control in Cambridge" as long as the section's emphasis was on "intellectual content" and the section did not become a tool of the rent-control movement...
...allot Title II moneys only for educational facilities, perhaps Harvard should, upon receiving a grant, make available from its endowment an equal amount: for use in the establishment of better school facilities for Boston ghetto dwellers; applied toward good low-cost housing in Cambridge; or perhaps committed to community rent-control projects...