[img]1792|left|Jim Clarke||no_popup[/img]City Councilman Jim Clarke said this morning he does not believe there is sufficient sentiment among his colleagues – nor within him – to institute the controversial concept of rent control.
Vice Mayor Mehaul O’Leary only favors aiding the elderly and disabled who have been harmed by rent escalations.
The neon subject is the star attraction at a Council meeting in less than two weeks, Monday, Dec. 8. That is precisely the point where Councilman Andy Weissman registered his perspective.
Although some City Hall sources previously have said that the heavily marketed meeting on, you will excuse the phrase “rental rates,” and affordable housing, is just to decide whether to schedule a future meeting, Mr. Weissman disagrees.
[img]1379|right|Mehaul O’Leary||no_popup[/img]He has interpreted the wording on the widely distributed invitation to mean that “three nodding heads,” as he likes to say, will be required to keep alive a chat about “rental rates” – rent control to 99 percent of the population.
How does Mr. Weissman believe a Council debate on the nuclear subject will turn out?
[img]1305|left|Andy Weissman||no_popup[/img]“Do you mean do I think that there is going to be made to study the issue of rent control?” he posed. “That is what the discussion is about. Rent control will not necessarily be put over to another meeting. If there aren’t three votes to pursue a discussion of rent control, it will all stop on Dec. 8.”
With Messrs. Clarke, O’Leary and Weissman appearing to be a wall of opposition, rent control appears to be in terminal jeopardy.
(To be continued)
