Word: rent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cambridge Rent Control Referendum campaign has gathered 300 signatures in its drive to place a rent control ordinance before the voters of Cambridge. A total of 8000 valid signatures are needed to call a special city-wide vote on the proposal...
...freezing of rents in almost all dwellings at their January 1, 1968 level. Exempted from this would be single-family dwellings, and small landlords who live in two or three-family dwellings and rent out the remaining one or two apartments...
...business about being an activist course was settled at the beginning of the spring also, when the department agreed to allow a section on Community Organizing that would work closely with participants in the Cambridge Rent Control drive. Many other Harvard courses have people get credit for actually doing things--Hum 105 (The Literature and Practice of the Drama) is one obvious example...
John D. Hanify '71, president of HUC, and Ellen Messer '69, president of RUS, will join the heads of student government at nine local colleges--including B.U., B.C. and M.I.T.--in a show of support for the tenants, who are withholding rent payments to force concessions from their landlord about maintenance of the building...
...Ceiling. The problem is aggravated by rent control. Alone among U.S. cities, New York has clung to wartime controls, which even today set artificially low ceilings, averaging $22.50 a room, on two-thirds of the city's 2,100,000 rental apartments. Like all price controls, rent ceilings have inflated demands and shriveled supply. Older couples hang on to bargain-rent apartments, which are often larger than they need, after their children have grown up and left home. Private builders, contending that they cannot build cheaply enough to compete with the controlled apartments, have practically stopped putting up middle...