Mayor Lee and Supervisor Wiener are proposing the city build more affordable housing. Lee’s plan is contingent on approval by legislators or the voters (shifting the burden from Lee to others). Also, building enough affordable housing would require the same amount of construction as from 1920 to the present. Rent control requires no new construction.…
Let your Supervisor know that you support stopping low-fault evictions.Tell Supervisor Jane Kim about low-fault eviction cases, preferably with names and contact information for the tenants. She is looking for data to back up the need for her new legislation stopping these low-fault evictions. Tenants are getting evicted for causes that are minor lease violations…
An article by psmag.com rebuts criticism of rent control including giving the results of studies such as a 2012 study that seems to show that the removal of rent regulations did nothing to lower housing prices and ended Cambridge’s tenure as a mixed-income neighborhood.