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brush

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1. Lacking a rent control law, the government can't stop rents from going up, the landlords do that . .

Reply to romanic (Original post)

Sun Nov 6, 2016, 08:22 AM

Nov 2016

if they can get away with it.

The community activists are correct in recognizing the art gallery as a harbinger of higher rents and change.

Unfortunately, you can't stop change.

Nothing stays the same forever.

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