Word: rental
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most predictable of last night's winners was Ianella, who has gone undefeated since 1958. In this election, Ianella concentrated on the issues of affordable rental housing and basic changes in city ordinances...
Even the leader of Cambridge's anti-rent control faction, City Councilor William H. Walsh, does not propose to eliminate controls on apartments rented to low-income, handicapped, and elderly tenants. Walsh's unsuccessful 1986 rent proposal would have set aside 30% of all rental units for the needy. Need would be assessed by a means test, similar no doubt to the annoying but sensible financial aid forms many of us fill out year after year...
DAVID E. Sullivan and his following have offered few reasons for continuing rent control to the non-needy--reasons ranging from the absurd to the blatantly self-interested. Supporters say that the law was instituted to protect rental units, not the people who live in them...
...Cambridge's 1970 law that established rent control was the 33 percent citywide rise in rents that year and the consequent eviction of numerous tenants from apartments in the Cambridge Port district. Indeed, the law explicitly cited the "emergency conditions" presented by the "substantial and increasing shortage of rental housing accommodations for families of low and moderate income and abnormally high rents...
After billboards, bus shelters and blimps, advertisements are now spreading to home-video rental boxes. Two companies, Calgary-based ADcorp and the Video Ad Network of Grand Rapids, have begun selling space on the plastic covers that encase videocassettes to dozens of advertisers, including McDonald's, Pizza Hut and the Bank of America. Nearly 35,000 U.S. video stores have signed up to carry the ad-bedecked cases. With good reason. Video Ad Network President Scott Johnson claims that a retailer who sells space on 2,000 tape cases could garner $16,000 or more a year in ad revenues...