Word: renting
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Long-term homosexual lovers in New York State, thanks to regulations issued by Governor Mario Cuomo's housing commissioner last week, now have the same right as surviving spouses to take over rent-stabilized apartments upon the death of their partners. In San Francisco voters last Tuesday narrowly rejected -- after vocal opposition from the city's archbishop and other religious leaders -- a proposal entitling gay couples to register their relationships with the county clerk. In Washington and Los Angeles, task forces have been set up to investigate whether denying gay couples the benefits enjoyed by married people is a form...
...this weekend, those same activists were ready to give him a medal: Instead of killing rent control, as opponents contended the referendum would do, 1-2-3 strengthened it immeasurably...
Buoyed by voters' overwhelming rejection of the referendum--which would have dramatically altered the city's rent control system--opponents of 1-2-3 scored a political coup. In last week's elections, pro-tenant councillors secured six of the nine seats on City Council--the highest majority since...
Proposition 1-2-3 would have allowed some tenants in rent-controlled housing to buy their apartments, thus removing them from the city's stock of affordable housing. Such a change, critics argued, would drive low-income families out of the city by giving landlords an extra incentive to rent to the wealthy...
...Meyer contended that 1-2-3 was designed to increase homeownership, not eliminate rent control. He said people turned out to defeat the referendum primarily because of the way opponents framed the debate...