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Show RENT CONTROLS Average 9,300 Units Being Freed Daily According to recent dispatches out of Washington, rental dwellings dwell-ings have been coming off the control con-trol list at an average rate of 9,300 a day since the new rent law went into operation on April first. Rent officials said, however, that few of the decontrol actions had affected any large metropolitan areas, and that some 14 million units still remained under the con trols as amended by the new federal fed-eral law. As of June 30, these officials added, 551 defense rental areas, so designated in wartime, were completely or partly covered by controls in 1,047 counties with a population in excess of 95 million people. But if the current rate of decontrol continued during the year, it would delight critics. |
