Word: rent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...these people, the building plans were changed to "moderate" income housing at $130 for a one bedroom apartment to $205 for a four bedroom apartment. Thirty per cent of the 212 housing units will be "low income" under a federal plan whereby residents pay 25% of their income as rent, and government subsidies cover the difference between this and the rents. This means that the original 85 low income units, with an average rent of $60 a month, will be replaced with 63 low income units and 149 moderate income units...
...selfsupporting. They cost the Federal Government only about $50 per head in aid a year, a level far lower than in many white communities. Then the reservation was made into a regular Wisconsin county, tax exemptions were cut off, and Indians who occupied land were allowed to buy or rent it. In the eight years since termination, many have become dead weights on the state's welfare programs. They have, in fact, cost Wisconsin nearly $2 million...
Claudio S. Buchwald '71 was sentenced for 30 days and fined $100 on charges of assault and battery for allegedly striking a policeman during the demonstration, a protest at the removal of a rent controlquestion from the November election ballot...
...provision exempting one, two and three-family owner-occupied units from any rent control bill...
Then Vellucci swung into action again. Voting "present" himself and relying on the anti-referendum councillors for the rest of the votes, Vellucci completely routed his political opposition withoutdamaging his self-proclaimed image as "a great champion of rent control." The referendum proposal was defeated...