Word: buys
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...current tenants who won't buy? Brookline, which last year repealed a similar law, illustrates this danger: the Brookline Rent Control Board and tenant activists heard that tenants were "encouraged" to leave if they didn't want to buy. And the problem of harassment is difficult to prove and even harder to stop...
Supporters of the measure claim it will allow thousands of city residents to buy their own homes, while opponents claim the measure could devastate the city's 19-year old rent-control ordinance...
Proposition 1 would allow tenants who have lived in rent-controlled apartments for more than two years to buy them, if the landlord is willing to sell...
Surprisingly, that low rate of homeownership is required by local law. The vast majority of tenants are forbidden by city ordinance from buying their own apartment, even if they wish to buy it and their landlord wishes to sell it to them. (The only current exceptions are owner-occupied one-, two- and three family homes, new construction, and tenants who were lucky enough to have moved into their apartment before August...
Proposition 1 says that if you have been a tenant in a rent-controlled apartment for two years, and if you wish to buy your home (and if your landlord wishes to sell it to you), you can do so. Under Proposition 1, you will not be required to buy. If you prefer, you can continue to rent forever at a low, rentcontrolled rent, just as you can now. But under Proposition 1, you will be given your choice...