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...east is Chinatown, where I go to buy low-sodium soy sauce and rent Hong Kong videos from Cantonese immigrants who speak no English (including, ?I don?t speak English?). To the north is trendy SoHo - or, as we hardy refugees to the southern tip of the island call it, Canada. To the southwest is Battery Park City, possibly the first attractive housing project since the Pyramids. Spend a few hours in any of these neighborhoods and then try, I dare you, to still hate New York...
...They’re all gone,” King said, “because of skyrocketing real estate costs and [the end of] rent control...
Although Ethridge King grew up in Cambridgeport, he is not hoping for the support of his childhood buddies because most of them left the neighborhood after rent control ended in 1995, King said...
...King’s major issues is his opposition to the idea of rent control—which he dislikes because of the “dependency atmosphere” it created—preferring instead to push for more city-subsidized home ownership programs, he said...
Jens says he would vote against any attempts to reintroduce rent control, eliminated in Cambridge in 1995, as a measure to provide affordable housing, and instead believes that the free market will ease the housing crunch...