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Three Cambridge City Councillors will ask the Council today to place an "opinion referendum" on rent control on the November 4 election ballot. The referendum would enact no law but would permit people to vote on the concept of rent control...
Councillors Thomas H. Mahoney, Barbara W. Ackermann, and Cornelia B. Wheeler will also ask the Council to request that the State legislature permit the City to enact a rent control...
...Cambridge Peace and Freedom party for a rent control referendum. The court ruled that a rent control law would be unconstitutional if passed and therefore could not be placed on the ballot. The Massachusetts State Constitution states that the legislature must give permission before a city can enact rent control...
According to Cronin, Leen's ruling was based on Article 47 of the Massachasetts Constitution which requires the State Legislature to give permission before a city can enact a rent control law. Leen could not be reached for comment last night...
...Commission to refuse it a place on the ballot, told the court that the bill as written is not only "illegal and unconstitutional, but totally unrelated to the problem in Cambridge." He said that the bill violates section 89 of the Massachuserts Constitution which states that no community may enact legislation providing for shelter unless the Massachusetts General Court declares a state of emergency...