Word: controller
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...FACT that the Cambridge City Council passed a rent control law this September after more than a year of haggling and agitating is no reason to expect an immediate decrease in Cambridge rents. Actually this is just the beginning...
...month after passage and roll back rents to levels of six months before. Under the terms of the law Cambridge rents should have been rolled back to their March 1970 levels as of October 15, but this is not happening. Philip M. Cronin, city solicitor and temporary rent control administrator, has instructed tenants that they are not authorized to pay lower rents until a permanent rent control administrator is appointed. Tenants feel that this is a ridiculous delaying tactic on the part of the city and have filed a suit against Cronin for incomplete administration and failure to comply with...
...same time Cambridge landlords are moving to kill the law. The Cambridge Property Owners Association is filing a suit, which will probably be heard in December along with the tenant suit, to get the rent control law declared unconstitutional. They point out that some of the law's provisions, such as the exemption for two-and three-family owner-occupied dwellings, are discriminatory and unconstitutional. They also charge that the term "fair net income" which is used in the law is undefined and unenforceable...
...Brookline, the second city in the state to adopt rent control, landlords have succeeded in getting a temporary injunction against the operation of the law pending their suit questioning the law's constitutionality. They brought up exactly the same questions as the Cambridge Property Owners, but the Brookline court handed down a completely opposite ruling. If the suit is successful in getting the law declared unconstitutional, rent control in Massachusetts will be dead for this year...
This sort of attitude on the part of Cronin and the Cambridge Property Owners Association has pervaded the whole history of rent control in Cambridge. Last year there were two attempts to institute rent control in Cambridge and both of them ultimately were squelched. The first proposal for rent control was brought forward by the Cambridge Housing Authority but defeated by the City Council by a 5-4 vote...