* To encourage negotiations between landlords and tenants regarding capital improvements to properties which would result in increased rent.

* To develop a mediation process that would allow owners and tenants to settle disputes without going before the Rent Control Board.

* To create an access office to publicize listings of vacant rent-controlled properties.

* To institutionalize the post of compliance officer within the Rent Control Board to ensure that owners and tenants comply with rent control regulations.

* The begin an outreach program to increase public understanding of the rent control system.

*To establish a loan program with a base sum of $1,000,000 to rend money to small landowners for structural improvements to their rent-controlled properties.

* To convene a consortium of reading city bankers to discuss lending practices which would favor small property tenants and owners.

* To eliminate the exemption that allows rent-controlled University-affiliated housing to convert from rent control after a vacancy.

* To institute a rent cup that would limit increases to 50 percent in a tow-year period.

* To express support for two bills currently under consideration by the state legislature which would allow the state to issue bonds for construction of new affordable housing.

* To undertake an inventory of the city's rent-controlled housing units in order to determine occupancy and physical condition.

* To develop an umbrella Housing Department to ensure consistency of inspections and services.

* To place priority on the resolution of issues affecting the owners of small, owner-occupied buildings.

But to the disappointment of members of the tenants union, the council tabled an order which would have stabilized the among and timing of "general adjustment" rent increases.

According to Turk, that order would have made the reform package at least somewhat positive. But owners stridently opposed the proposal and the council eventually tabled the plan for future consideration.