Word: renting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...response to their persistence, Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci appointed a "Green Ribbon" Committee this summer to investigate the possibility of establishing a system of minimum rents for the city's rent-controlled apartments...
Last week, the committee presented the City Council with a report of its conclusions. And last night, councillors voted to send its recommendations to the city's Rent Control Board...
...example, Rosenberg's suggested minimum rent for a four-room heated apartment is $336. SPOA members used two methodologies to calculate an appropriate minimum rent, and came up with figures of $502 and $720 for the same unit, the report states...
...report is only a suggestion. As Rosenberg states in the document, "Under Ch. 36 of the Acts of 1976, the Rent Control Act, only the Rent Control Board has the authority to promulgate the regulations which would be required to implement the recommendations...
...ultimate fate of the report and the rent control system lies in the hands of the City Council, Vellucci says...