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Harry Truman: A basic weakness of the rent control provisions of the Act is the so-called 'voluntary' increase of 15 percent in cases…

On the recordJune 29, 1947
A basic weakness of the rent control provisions of the Act is the so-called 'voluntary' increase of 15 percent in cases where the landlord and tenant enter into a lease that will continue until December 31, 1948.
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Harry Truman
Democratic · Missouri

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Special Message to the Congress Upon Signing the Housing and Rent Act.

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