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What outraged Duarte was the sweeping nature of the resolution. President Alvaro Alfredo Magana's original proposal was to continue the exemption, first enacted last year, of cotton and sugar cane acreage from the so-called land-to-the-tiller reform decree, which enables tenant farmers and sharecroppers to acquire plots of up to 17 acres from their landlords. The suspension, for one growing season (a year for cotton, three to four years for sugar cane), was aimed at ensuring high production of two of the country's leading exports at a time of economic strain...
...Under Phase 3, the so-called land-to-the-tiller decree, peasants were permitted to buy the tiny plots (up to 17 acres) that they had been working as tenant farmers or sharecroppers. About 29,000 farmers, out of a potential 125,000, have applied for ownership...
Joel Johnson has served as one of the rent board's two tenant representative since...
...think that tenants probably have some misconceptions about rent control," Johnson says. "They think they may not be very secure, but a lot have forgotten or never experienced what it would be like living in a city without rent control." The fact that some tenants see rent control as an absolute ceiling on rents causes problems, he says. In addition, some tenants become uncomfortable at rent board meetings because they "haven't learned yet how to approach the board." "When I went before the board as a tenant. I was not sure what to do," he admits. But after appearing...
...questions the board deals with should be no surprise." Cohn says in answer to a question about tenants' confusion at board meetings. "There really are no surprise, if a tenant is paying attention, he will understand procedures." But only a few minutes later Cohn says. "It we can be faulted, it is because we sometimes do not give a layman's explanation" of the reasoning behind decisions. "Somebody who hasn't been there [at the rent board] before or doesn't understand the issues might be surprised, but then it's the job of those with experience to explain what...