Word: rented
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...petition for rent control in Cambridge has, by official count, more than enough signatures to get onto the City's November 4 ballot...
Packed council chambers are always likely to spark symbolic confrontations, and the chambers were very packed indeed during the rent control debate. In large part, this was due to the idea behind the entire housing convention movement, an idea currently popular with Federal agencies in Cambridge and elsewhere--"citizen participation." The young CEOC staff members who, behind the scenes, did much of the housing convention organizing take "citizen participation" in local government as one of their guiding lights and speared no pains to assure a large turnout of angry citizens for the council meeting and housing convention rallies...
...housing convention might have been one force to help build it, but its battle for rent control convinced many of its members that rent control is the most urgently-needed measure. The loss of the battle appears to have induced many to switch to referendum campaign where their fight for the cherished rent control can continue. Whether the housing convention can lure these supporters back, if only for an evening, to back for example, approval of a housing site is unclear. It may be impossible, for rent control remains the most attractive issue...
...faithless five," as they have come to be termed, have alienated many housing convention members from the council; they feel that a majority of the council is not in favor of any real action on the housing crisis. The view is understandable since, for those who fought for it, rent control is the most real action that can be taken. Yet, given the very mixed consequences of the proposal, it is quite possible to reach the conclusion that rent control would do more harm than good. This, more than the fabled dollars of landlords, was perhaps the difference between four...
After the decision on rent control became clear last Monday, several councillors asked the housing convention members to "sit down together with the council" to map out a concrete program on housing. The request may go unanswered, for much, perhaps too much blood has been shed over rent control in recent days...