Word: toomey
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...Councillor Jonathan S. Myers said that although he considered Toomey's proposal "a constructive one" and agreed that "somehow these pieces have to come together in a cohesive way," he did not think that every part of the plan was feasible...
Myers questioned the feasibility of implementing Toomey's plan to tax tenants earning more than 250 percent of the poverty-level income. In an interview yesterday, he said that the city had little information about how many such residents live in rent-controlled housing, which comprises about 60 percent of the city's rental housing units...
...going to ask for affidavits from all of the tenants in the city? That's a serious question," Myers said. He also observed that "the money isn't really there" in the Affordable Housing Trust Fund to finance the upgrades and de-leading which Toomey also proposed...
Councillor Kenneth E. Reeves '72, chair of the council's Rent Control Committee, said his committee will release next month a comprehensive report addressing the issues Toomey raised. He said Toomey's proposal had shown "no substantial background research...
...questioned the exclusion of the issue of homelessness from Toomey's plan. "If homelessness is missing, what else is missing?" he said...