Word: pro-rent
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...within its first year, rent control, which has evolved into Cambridge's political litmus test, was repealed by a lame duck city council in a stormy public meeting. Days later, when the new council took office, the system was reenacted, and pro-rent control candidates managed to hold five of the council's nine seats throughout the 1970s and 1980s. Since 1989, six of the councillors have been prorent control...
Some pundits had expected that Vellucci, another pro-rent control Independent, would take votes away from Toomey...
...longtime city activist Michael Turk, president of the Cambridge Tenants' Union, pointed to the strong showings of Wolf, Duehay, Myers and Reeves to indicate that the pro-rent control CCA has a strong mandate for the upcoming council term...
Slate voting was responsible for the current 6-3 pro-rent control majority on the city council, says Michael H. Turk, co-chair of the Cambridge Tenant's Election Committee...
Cambridge's lower-income tenants, on the other hand, support the system--and for the first time last election voted a pro-rent control majority into the council. Over the past month, many have testified to the council that without the low rents guaranteed by the rent control system, they would be homeless