Word: renting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...ballot referendum known as Proposition 1-2-3, which would radically overhaul the city's rent control system, was also expected to mobilize large numbers of voters...
...Generally speaking people in Harvard affiliate housing can afford something else, either now or in the near future," says Peter W. Fraser, who lives in Harvard affiliate rent-controlled housing...
Linda B. Levine, who owns two rent-controlled apartments on Mt. Auburn St., says rent control is uneconomical for owners, and hopes that either 1-2-3 or the accompanying City Council elections can turn the situation around...
...worth it to rent control. I'm losing money," she says. "If we don't get an Independent majority on the City Council...If they don't reform [rent control] so that I get a fair rent, I'm going to have to sell...
...arguments that 1-2-3 is too drastic a change for the people who have lived in rent-controlled apartments for years, Fraser says that is simply not the case...