Word: renting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Cambridge City Councillors have been well informed of the needs of the city's small landlords lately. Every week for the past three months, members of the Small Property. Owners Association (SPOA) have. been picketing City Hall and speaking on rent control issues...
...PBHA cabinet's recent opposition to Prop 1-2-3, a Cambridge ballot initiative that would weaken the city's system of rent control, is a classic example of the ambiguous political implications of opposing social problems. Ehrenreich defended the move by saying that "the proposition would severely hurt the populations our programs are trying to serve...
...what about those PBHA members who believe that rent control contributes to homelessness? What are they to think when their leaders implicitly accuse them of incorrect thinking...
...People keep asking why," Kelly said "It just happened...It's not like I was blowing the rent money...
...other business, councillors received a report from the Mayor's Green Ribbon Committee to Research and Propose Minimum Rents, but forestalled discussion of the report. Sullivan charter-righted and order that would have referred the report to the city's Rent Control Board and requested that they hold a public meeting to discuss its contents...