Dear Editor: Rent control should not be a partisan issue since it impacts our community across the board. The recent suggested changes in the Rent Control Law represent a bandaid approach offering minimal protection to current tenants. What it does not do is protect the future prospects for working families to be able to ever again move into or relocate to another address in Hoboken. Is Hoboken choosing to close its doors to the working families who have been the backbone of this town? Their children attend the schools and participate in sports and theater. The adults form the core of volunteers in hospitals, or ambulances, at shelters and churches. They demonstrate a real stake in the community. What would it be like without them? During the past five years, I’ve noted that in North Bergen and Union City, successful efforts have been made to win grants from federal, state and county sources for housing for working people and seniors. This is not easy. Affordable housing is not the priority of the present governor or the feds. During the Vezzetti administration, I worked for several years with the Community Development Agency which was mandated to leave no stone unturned in searching for funding sources for housing, parks and recreation. I suggest that the city go after whatever it can to fund and subsidize middle income housing with guidelines and make this a requirement to be included in any future development and that these funds be applied to vacated affordable housing units to maintain them for middle income families. We have more than enough expensive development for transients at the present time and more is planned. Let’s invest the same kind of energy, creativity and focus on creating homes for working families as has been invested in massive development for the wealthy. This town has been known for its healthy balance of an economically and ethnically mixed population. Let’s keep it that way! Jean Forest