Word: rent
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Many people would like to see him more active, particularly in these times where the liberal agenda is under attack from conservatives in this society," adds Lee, a leading prorent control advocate in the period last fall before rent control's abolition. "Alvin hasn't been there to do that...
Critics have focused particularly on Thompson's handling of the issues of the end rent control and closing of a Stop and Shop...
Thompson and State Rep. Timothy J. Toomey Jr. (D-Cambridge) shepherded the city's home-rule petition to salvage some forms of rent control for low-income tenants following the passage of a state referendum last fall to abolish...
...thought he could have been stronger," Lee adds. "I don't think he really believed in the usefulness of rent control. He was not very prominent in the struggle...
...best compromise we could have gotten at that time," says Thompson, adding that city government and rent control are to blame for not enacting reforms to the bloated rent-control bureaucracy sooner...