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...last month, voters approved Question 9, a ballot initiative to abolish rent control, effective January...
...centrist post-election swing, Clinton -- in a statement -- described the current welfare system as a "bad deal for the taxpayers who pay the bills and for the families who are trapped on it." Newly-empowered GOP leaders, meanwhile, have their own designs on the issue: House Republicans want to abolish more than 100 social programs -- Aid to Families with Dependent Children and federal efforts dealing with child and foster care, food stamps, nutrition and job training -- and replace them with grants to state governments...
Cambridge, Boston and Brookline--the only three communities in Massachusetts with rent control laws--filed the petitions after the passage last month of Question 9, the ballot initiative to abolish rent control effective on January...
...Crimson's decision to endorse ballot Question 9 on Election Day was disappointing and shocking ("Vote Yes on 9", Opinion, Nov. 4, 1994). This proposition to end rent control in Massachusetts was flawed from the start in its zeal to abolish, rather than reform, the existing system...
...approved by the state senate and signed by governor, the petitions would allow the cities to keep rent control housing beyond January 1, the date set to abolish 25-year-old limits on rents...