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From: rcb@fortune.UUCP (Robert Binstock)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re:  Re: Rental housing
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Date: Thu, 3-May-84 13:19:01 EDT
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Posted: Thu May  3 13:19:01 1984
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I never had any trouble finding an apartment in Cambridge.  Last
year I was paying $308 (including heat) for a nice one bedroom there.
In San Francisco (without rent controls) if you mention a figure like
$308 everyone will laugh in your face.  I am now paying a share
of $850 (heat not included!) for a two-bedroom in SF.  My friends in 
Boston/Cambridge who have two-bedrooms are paying $500, $410, $575.  
One has a three-bedroom for $640.

Tell me about how tough it is in Cambridge.  I'm tired of
having people exaggerate the alleged negative effects of
rent control because the idea of a socially responsible
government scares them silly.