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by Glen Casebeer.
"Without any rent control, millions of American families would face rapidly soaring rents and wholesale evictions. We are still suffering from a critical housing shortage. Many families are desperately seeking homes."
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Truman wanted rent control to combat communism 
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"One of the most stubborn obstacles in the way of any constructive housing program has been the opposition of the real estate lobby. Its members have exerted pressure at every point against every proposal for making the housing program more effective."
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"They have constantly sought to weaken rent control and to do away with necessary aids to housing. They are openly proud of their success in blocking a comprehensive housing program."
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"This group has sought to achieve financial gains without regard to the damage done to others. It has displayed a ruthless disregard of the public welfare."
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"It is intolerable that this lobby should be permitted by its brazen operations to block programs so essential to the needs of our citizens. Nothing could be more clearly subversive of representative government."
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"I urge the Congress to make a full investigation of the activities of this selfish and shortsighted group."
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It's an under told story how much 20th century social reform was enacted by the US as a direct bulwark against a communist alternative and how much ground we've lost since that threat was neutralized.
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