Word: control
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Since its inception in 1970, rent control has held center stage in Cambridge politics...
Other issues come and go, but the city's rent control system remains as controversial today as the day it was enacted. And in every election, rent control is a battleground between candidates favoring the system's overhaul and those rallying for its preservation at any cost...
This election year, however, the debate has a different spin, With three of rent control's strongest backers retiring from the City Council, the future of the system could be in jeopardy...
More importantly, city residents will vote this year on Proposition 1-2-3, a binding ballot referendum that would fundamentally change the system by allowing some rent-control tenants to purchase their apartments after living in them for at least two years...
Supports of the measure say it will give thousands of city residents an opportunity to buy homes, which they otherwise could not afford. But 1-2-3 opponents contend that the proposition would cripple the rent control system and dangerously deplete the city's stock of affordable housing...