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Fried yesterday declined to state his views on rent control, referring inquiries to his two published opinions.
"Cambridge and other communities can regulate rents only because the Legislature has specifically allowed them to," Fried wrote in an opinion printed July 21, 1994. "If the people of the state must grant that permission, they can take it away."
Fried said Cambridge politicians have abused rent control, which was originally designed as an emergency measure to help low-and moderate-income tenants.
"Rent control causes a deterioration in the housing stock and a lowering of property values that necessarily shifts a greater burden of state aid to other communities that manage their affairs in a less unusual way," Fried wrote.
Turk said yesterday the two groups--the tenants union and the Save Our Communities Committee--fear Fried's conservative voice on the high court could bode badly for tenants in future constitutional battles with landlords and real estate interests.