Word: ofrent
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Besides the Affordable Housing Trust increaseand opposition of the state legislation, the EFZhad demanded that the council draft legislation toprotect tenants. They suggested the council passjustcause eviction and rent-regulation lawssimilar to those that existed prior to the end ofrent control...
...should have been that way for rentcontrol," Dowds said. "How it came to be that theCCA came to be comprised only of those in favor ofrent control was a long process, and a bigmistake...
...council's program would help tenants becomefirst-time homebuyers by providing "counseling,education and training to existing tenants,"establishing second mortgage programs incooperation with Cambridge banks, establishingcity, federal and state funded mortgage pools andby providing assistance with rehabilitation andclosing costs for those displaced by the end ofrent control, according to a description releasedby the council...
...There are a number of areas which could bedeveloped more intensively due to the removal ofrent control," Duehay said. "Cambridge Streetbetween Inman and Cambridge and MassachusettsAvenue between Central and Harvard Squares arejust two examples of where major building couldtake place because of the change...
While Reeves had been a strong proponent ofrent-control in Cambridge during his last andCCA-supported, term as mayor, the Independentswith whom he is now affiliated have beenhistorically anti-rent control...