Word: controller
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Cambridge officials agree that if President-elect Reagan's administration cuts off federal aid to cities with rent control, Cambridge may have to end its rent control program...
Councilor Kevin Crane '72, a longtime critic of the city's rent control, said yesterday "there would have to be some very serious reconsideration" of rent control programs if a Reagan task force...
While Reagan did not single out rent control during his campaign, his urban affairs team, headed by San Diego Mayor Pete Wilson, said federal aid to cities with rent limits should be stopped. The task force called rent control a "major source" of urban problems and blamed it for slowing new construction and causing deterioration of housing stock...
...last week, Reagan called for an end to federal aid for cities with rent control...
Crane said he thinks the task force report shows decreasing national support for rent control. But he added he doubts that many Cantabrigians have lost support for it. "There's public sentiment for some sort of changes in the administration of rent control, but not for doing away with it entirely," he said...