The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-05-05

Chicago, IT,, May 5-Change in the application dates for Federal rent control to make the application simultaneously as of March in all the cities selected is requested in resolutions adopted by members of the Institute of Real Estate Man. agement and by representatives of member boards of the National As- sociation of Real Estate Boards. The resolutions, adopted at na- tional conference on rent control representing the residential man. agement business of the United States, and now before Price Ad- ministrator Leon Henderson, are based upon the complete change in circumstances with reference to rent control brought about by President Roosevelt's message of April 20.
 "since the Presidents address rent regulation has become an integral part of 8 much larger program of price control to prevent imitation in the interest of winning the war. This purpose has superseded the use of rent control to remedy local rent situations affecting war workers or1- ly. At present 1t Is designed to reg ulate practically all urban resit "i- tial rentals for all economic classes" !" the resolution points out.
 Under these circumstances 1t seems fairer to everyone concerned and certainly much simpler for ad- miriIstration if rent control Is ap- piled to all cities selected simul- taneously as of March ], 1922. We believe if this change is made 1t will eliminate a feeling of discrimination and injustice on the part of some 60 cities which have been selected for retrospective freezing dates"
 The real estate management btisi- ness of the country, in further reS- olutions of the conference, pledges support to the Government in Its ef- fort to prevent imitation and agrees to cooperate Loyalty in all ways pos sible in making the stabilization of rentals practicable and workable during the war emergency.
 The conference reaffirnled the po- sition taken by the National ASso- ciation of Real Estate Boards at its convention in November, 194l, and pointed out that any attempt to con- trol some prices without controlling wages and all other clements that enter into prices is obviously unfair and unsourd and cannot succeed. and therefore any attempt to con- trol rents by law must, if 1t is to be sound, be linked with control Of all factors contributing to the cost of ownership and operation of proper ty, including wages and including property taxes.
 BaIancea Real Estate Industry
 Called at the request of Price Ad- minlstTatog Henderson, and spon- sored jointly by the Institute of Real Estate Management and the Nation al Association of Real Estate Boards, the conference resolved into two- day panel discussions led by Paul A. Porter, deputy administrator of OPA, and, Karl Borders, chief of OPA's rent division. It pEeviewed cIanse-by-elaase the administrative regulations proposed for every city tisak Is put under rent control, reg- lllations that would yeguiFe . ped- eral card Index record Of rents charged on every dwelling unit os' feFad for rent.
 on behalf Of OPA, Borders eeFns estly assured the c0nfegees that ID adIalnlstFatl0n Of Federal rent eon- tF0l ''We arc going to do eag utmost t0 make certain, as fer aS ss hus manly possible, the maintenance ef Q stable, Balanced reel estate Indus try. That ts part 0f our Job, We want you to hsip ts te do t."
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