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cities add their distribution costs. It is therefore not comparable to the figures presented for the increase as it applies to just the City of Waterloo at the retail level It is necessary for me to clarify the context of information presented in the Waterloo Chronicle last week I was correctly quoted on a $27.50 figure that appeared on the front page relative to the impact of regional water and sewer rates Councillor clarifies her argument terms. Few Canadians enjoy the luxury of being able to vote themselves a pay raise. By waiving an increase now, Waterioo‘s counciliors will prove themselves the civic leaders they‘re elected to be. After all, they‘re not in it for the money, are they? A fiveâ€"perâ€"cent raise isn‘t a lot in real terms, a few thousand dollars at most, but it‘s a lot in symbolic it appears Waterloo city counciliors are ready to vote themseives a fiveâ€"perâ€"cent cost of living increase â€" not a raise, they say, a raise is something else. If they do, Waterloo‘s will be the only counciliors in the area to get a pay hike this year. Now, five per cent isn‘t a lot of money, considering they receive only $11,000 annually for representing the city. And it‘s not that they don‘t work for that money â€" council meetings, committee meetings, public appearances, and dealing with the public takes a lot of time, often time away from fullâ€"time jobs. But taking that increase now, in a recession, when businesses are closing down, or laying off, or work sharing, when many taxpayers haven‘t received a raise, shows a callous lack of understanding of what‘s happening in the community and the hardship too many taxpayers are suffering. PAGE A6 â€" WATERLOO CHRONICLE, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1991 Display Advertising: Maureen McNab Teresa Clemmer Gerry Mattice Don Steeves Waterloo Chronicle is published every Wednesday by Reporters: Pete Cudhea (Sports editor) Keren Adderley Deborah Crandall News Editor: Melodee Martinuk o gid‘is1 Reject raise Chronicle The Fairway Group Incorporated 215 Fairway Rd. S . Kitchener, Ont Publisher: Paul Winkler Telephone News Line Fax. No Waterloo Town Square ) King St. South, Suite 2 Waterloo. Ontario NJ TR3 886â€"28 30 8863021 886 9383 Circulation Manager: Greg Cassidy Circulation: Mary Baycroft Jerry Fischer Ray Lakhan Anita Auernigg General Manager: Rick Campbell Major Accounts: Bill Karges A USâ€"based organization called The Center for Community Change has proâ€" duced a study which concludes that rent controls do not help the poor I know I made this point with Mr. Connolly from Tax Watch, the week before. Apparently, I did not make this clear in debate the subsequent week. â€" This, in itself, is not all that unusual. After all, studies with that conclusion are being released all the time. Such studies 201 Rent controls harm the poor Subseription rates $35 yearly in Canada $40 outside Canada. â€" Susan Forwell Councillor for the City and Region of Waterloo YOU T1 If Heritage Day was an official holiday, how would you spend a According to the report, those who really benefit from rent control are middleâ€"and upperâ€"income tenants. Nevertheless, the CCC‘s report, entitled ‘"Who Benefits from Rent Control?" conâ€" cluded that rent controls have "the perâ€" verse effect of institutionalizing the probâ€" lem it was supposed to solve." Another study, by the Washingtonâ€"based Heritage Foundation, goes even further are usually sponsored by landlord groups or by developers, however, who have an interest in ending rent control. This study, however, is different. The Center for Community Change is a nonâ€"profit organization dedicated to helpâ€" ing the poor and minorities. It is not the kind of group which is traditionally opâ€" posed to rent control. ing." I would go out and rent Flatâ€" liners because that‘s what I want to do." "I would probably be workâ€" long weekend in February? Robin LeBlane Waterloo Jim Peacock Kitchener All this evidence seems to undermine the arguments of those who claim that rent control benefits the poor. If anything, rent control seems to harm the less wel! off and help the afluent. David Somerville, The reasons are simple, says the report Rent control blocks the working of the housing market and discourages developâ€" ers from responding to increases in de ma{:‘d for low‘coet housing. and concludes that rent control actually harms the poor. * In fact, the Heritage Foundation says that an analysis of the rates of homelessâ€" ness in 50 major cities across the country shows that rent control is the only factor that is associated with high rates of homelessness. "Just laying back and tak ing it easy." "I would probably spend it with my grandchild." National Citizens‘ Coalition Pam Gillard Kitchener Mary Myers Kitchener