Word: spoa
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Four bills on rent control sponsored by State Rep. Philip Travis (D. Bristol) were discussed before the House Local Affairs Committee, amidst cheers and jeers by a vociferous audience of members of the Small Property Owners Association (SPOA), which was responsible for drafting the bills, and rent control activists who want to maintain the status...
...political level, much of the discussion focused on the propriety of the way the bills were pushed by SPOA and Travis...
...SPOA report] is highly biased and flawed to its foundations as to what it can say about the city," said Michael H. Turk, the co-chair of the Cambridge Tenants' Union. "[The lawsuit] is a grab bag of claims already litigated and wholly and thoroughly illegitimate...
According to Turk, SPOA falsely claims that rents are not high enough to keep up with inflation because their study is based on the 1967 inflation rate. Rents are actually skyrocketing compared to inflation, Turk said...
Jillson did acknowledge, however, that SPOA faces a "philosophical obstacle," the problem of "getting over the hurdle that rent control is a good idea." "I think Cambridge rent control is never good for any city," said Lenore M. Schloming '59, SPOA member and publisher of Eagle's Eye, an anti-rent control newspaper. "Our greatest obstacle is bucking the status quo, and that's always hard...