Word: controls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...committee rejected the bills to end rent control because they intruded on Cambridge's home rule, Sullivan said...
...Rent control opponent and city councilor Lawrence A. Frisoli said yesterday. "Someone will make some noise in the legislature about the rent control bills...
Tenant organizer David Sullivan called the unfavorable reports on the rent control bills" a major victory for tenants," but termed the vote against the condominium conversion bill hypocritical and said "we have a good chance of winning on the floor...
Both sides agreed one effect of state rejection would be to move the rent control battle back into Cambridge. Landlords have strongly opposed rent control, which was adopted nine years ago, because they think it keeps them from making fair profits, but tenants and other residents have said the limits on rent are necessary to protect poor and elderly residents...
...have several options open to fight rent control, three or four at least," Frisoli said. He declined to detail the plans of rent control foes...