Word: renting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Severlin Singleton, former assistant district attorney who quit his post to run for City Council says rent control is his number one concern...
...Without rent control, we would have skyrocketing rents and many low and middle income people would not be able to afford it," Singleton says. "My platform is that rent control is here to stay," he adds...
David Sullivan, one of the few city council candidates campaigning actively among students, is stressing his commitment to rent control, his determined opposition to condominium conversion, and the fact that he is the only tenant on the progressive slate...
...graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard Law School, Sullivan works as an attorney for the secretary of state. A loser by only eight votes in his first council bid a year ago, he has won the endorsement of both the Cambridge Civic Association and the Rent Control Task Force...
...Sullivan, the finances of the city are of vital importance. "It is crucial to have the revenue which the real estate tax brings in," he says. "With rent control we just don't get sufficient income to keep taxes down...