Word: renting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seem O.K. to your editorial board that rent-controlled apartments in fact don't go to the poor, but are distributed to whoever offers the most money for one via a Reward poster behind the Coop. The whole system cries out for reforms like mine...
...current rent-control system is illiberal, illogical and intolerant. The caring and progressive way to vote today is: give the right to own to all. Vote "Yes" on Proposition 1-2-3. Fred Meyer Harvard Square
With recent cuts in state aid, many city politicos say the council's focus on rent control could change as taxes and fiscal woes take center stage. And that new emphasis could lead to a reevaluation of the PR system itself...
...city of Cambridge, in exercise of its powers under Section 6 of the Home Rule Amendment and under Sections 2 and 5 (c) of Chapter 36 of the Acts of 1976 (the "Rent Control Act") hereby AMENDS its ordinances to provide as follows, notwithstanding any provision of any other city ordinance to the contrary...
Section 2. Any owner who has occupied a single family house or a condominium unit for his or her own use for a period of at least two years shall be deemed exempt from Rent Control (and said single family house or condominium unit shall not be deemed a controlled rental unit under the Rent Control Act) with respect to any subsequent rental by the owner or his or her family, heirs or estate...