Word: rent
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This time, there were no riots, but the case rent the fabric of race relations in America as much as if angry people had taken to the streets. How else to explain the scenes, witnessed over and over again in bars, offices and homes across the country, of blacks yelling for joy at the verdict and whites shaking their heads? Now, when a white person passes a black person on the street, race will be more at the front of their minds; when lawyers choose juries, they will weigh white and black even more carefully. For advocates of a race...
Providing affordable housing for those displaced by the loss of rent control is another issue, according to Lester P. Lee, Jr. "There is a quiet exodus," he says...
...past, much of the group's support was derived from backers of rent control, an initiative begun in 1970 and struck down by state-wide referendum last November...
Following the abolition of rent control, many tenants who previously voted the CCA ticket have fled the city in search of affordable housing, according to CCA member David E. Sullivan...
...With rent control gone, it's a different ballgame," said member Chuck R. Colbert. "This election is an important one, but it's also a scary...