Word: controllable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rent control in 1994 aggravated the housing shortage in Cambridge and forced EFZ to change its tactics...
...Rent control provided two important protections for tenants, according to Cavellini. It slowed rent increases, limiting landlord profit margins, and provided for a "just-cause" eviction process so tenants could not be evicted without reason...
Because of these protections, EFZ simply had to bring tenant complaints before a now-defunct rent control board...
...Resolution of conflict was at the rent control board," Cavellini says. "Basically, that step was eliminated. Now it's in front of a courthouse, which is not a good place for tenants...
About 16,000 housing units in Cambridge lost their protection under rent control. To compensate for this loss, EFZ founded its Campaign to Save 2,000 Homes to forestall evictions and keep rents down...