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Both the city and the tenants dispute SPOA's claims, however, and question the validity of the study...
...according to Jillson, there is no longer a housing emergency in Cambridge--the vacancy rate is currently 6 percent, she says. In the SPOA report, figures indicate that the maximum rents landlords can collect--"fair net operating income"--do not cover the minimum costs of maintaining the property...
...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...