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...Cambridge City Council adjourned its meeting last night rather than discuss an eleventh-hour resolution on a ballot measure seeking to reintroduce rent control to the city...
...Massachusetts Homeowners Coalition, which hopes to keep the rent control issue off the November ballot, said 1,500 of the group’s signatures aren’t valid, according to Hoerst. The election commission will decide at a hearing tomorrow whether to accept the signatures...
Before it takes effect, the rent control measure must get on the ballot, win the support of one-third of all Cambridge voters, and then pass the State House—a series of obstacles that observers said are likely insurmountable...
...city council can also vote before Sept. 30 to send the petition directly to the State House without putting it on the ballot...
Calling herself a “firm supporter of rent control,” Councillor E. Denise Simmons was the only member of the council who spoke in favor of the petition going on the ballot...