There is still no attempt to institute rent control or fair-eviction laws.
In the 1940s the central government addressed these concerns through housing policy by subsidizing rents and instituting rent control.
Along with many other landlords in the area, his company instituted rent reductions of 15percentto30percentcentoto residents who remained in their apartments after Sept. 11.
P. Gilbert Mercurio, chief executive of the Board of Realtors, said a spate of co-op conversions occurred after the state enacted the Emergency Tenant Protection Act almost 30 years ago, which instituted rent controls and signaled to building owners that their profits would be be regulated.
One concession made to win support was to institute rent control, making East Palo Alto the only city between San Francisco and San Jose to have such an ordinance.
Berlin instituted rent controls this month that are designed to protect long-term residents who can't pay the same housing costs as the hipsters sipping beers in the Tiergarten and playing guitar along the canals of Kreuzberg. .
The institute rented and borrowed space here and there as it brought dance, performance and arts education to thousands of New York City public school students.
Conditions in Ireland quickly eased after William Ewart Gladstone's Land Act of 1881 instituted fair-rent tribunals.
More than half of the young adults surveyed by the institute are renting, but they haven't given up on the American dream.
Mrs. Stevens opened the institute in a rent-free vacant office, with a roster of scientists serving as advisers.
