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...many financially secure individuals living in fixed-rent apartment while their landlords struggle to make ends meet...
...printing error, an article on page 3 of Friday's newspaper was cut off. In the final paragraph of the article, which was about a rent control trial in Boston, Cambridge City Councillor William H. Walsh, an opponent of rent control, explained why he thinks rent control is a political payoff. "Because I offered to subsidize your college tuition," he told a Crimson reporter, "you'd vote...
...public offering in the wake of the FCC order. Falcon , had planned to use the funds to replace 2,300 miles of conventional wire with fiber-optic cable that could double its current 40-channel capacity. "The uncertainty caused by the FCC is like an apartment owner suddenly having rent control imposed," says Falcon chairman Marc Nathanson. "It's not just the first rate cut of 10%; it's the second cut of 7% on top of that...
Olins said rent control is a waste of public funds. "It's the public sector supplying subsidies, which drain funds from the public budget to people who don't need it," he said...
...Walsh, who could finish his term on the city council in a federal jail cell, said rent control amounts to "Subsidizing the rich" because many wealthy people live in rent-controlled housing...