Word: rent
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...plan was drafted by community activists and proposed by Councillors Katherine Triantafillou, Kathleen L. Born and Kenneth E. Reeves '72. Supporters intend for the plan to reallocate a city surplus brought about by last year's end of rent control...
...plan] represents the best attempt to fill the gap between before and after rent control," Reeves said...
According to Steven Meacham, organizer of the activist group Eviction Free Zone, the plan would lend backbone to a report issued last October by the council's Housing Committee. The report called on Harvard and the city to jointly fund the sale of the University's 700 formerly rent-controlled apartments at below-market rates...
Although defeated over a year ago at a state-wide referendum, rent control still influenced last night's debate. One member of SPOA wore a "rent control sucks" T-shirt, and supporters of the proposal booed and hissed while Schloming--a vocal opponent of rent control--spoke...
...other business, the council tabled two proposals by Triantafillou, Born, Reeves and Councillor Henrietta A. Davis to petition the State Legislature to extend the rent controls on "expiring-use" apartment buildings...