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...while, the meeting actually focused on the issue it was supposed to address: how to maintain the habitability and affordability of Cambridge's rent controlled housing stock...
Denise Jillson, chair of the Small Property Owner's Association, which opposes rent control, later blasted the theatrical opening of the meeting as "government by fantasy," and said her organization was "insulted by the form to which this hearing has degenerated...
...video prepared by the city rent control board showed four rent-controlled properties in East Cambridge, described their needs for renovation, and explored whether passing on the costs of renovation to the tenants would be prohibitively expensive or difficult for the landlord or for the tenant...
Jillson proposed an alternate solution: either doing away with rent control entirely, or removing two units from rent control for every one unit that is reserved for the needy. This, she said, would fund housing rehabilitation while making sure that rent controlled apartments go to the people who really need them...
...feel abused, we feel exploited," said John Natale, a small property owner. Natale said that he's heard the phrase, "If I only had a gun..." used seriously by rent control opponents, and he warned, "We're on the brink of someone getting hurt...