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Elsewhere, authorities are working to bring the flesh market under control. Britain passed a law in 1989 forbidding organ sales after a Turk complained that he had been lured to Britain with a job offer, sent to a hospital under a false pretext, then anesthetized and relieved of one of his kidneys. Germany is pushing through a similar law, spurred in part by an abortive offer from a Soviet medical institute to provide German patients with Russian kidneys for a fee of $68,570 -- payable in deutsche marks...
...Basically, there's been relatively little content in the orders," says Michael H. Turk, chair of the Cambridge Tenants' Union (CTU). "It isn't that there aren't some positive elements, but those need a lot of work...
According to Turk, the main problem with the tenant surcharge is that it will be a move in the direction of government subsidies for owners. Currently, owners of rent-controlled properties charge rent based on upkeep costs...
...affordable housing surcharge will only harm tenants, Turk says. He adds, it is the only significant order in the package. "What major piece of action there is, namely the tenant tax, is negative," he says...
According to Turk, that order would have made the reform package at least somewhat positive. But owners stridently opposed the proposal and the council eventually tabled the plan for future consideration...