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Mayor Reeves, however, declared the city will go all out to preserve rent control, the housing program which began in Cambridge in 1970. "We will try to see if we can save as much rent control as we can," he said last night.
Mayor Kenneth E. Reeves '72 met yesterday with state Rep. Charles Flaherty (D-Cambridge), speaker of the house of representatives, to discuss options the city can take to preserve a form of rent control, the mayor told. the Crimson last night. Rent control has been the law in Cambridge since...
"This is the worst thing that has happened in this city in a quarter of a century," Reeves said. "Unless the worst features of Question 9 are modified, people will be displaced because the rents will double or more than double."
Cambridge Mayor Kenneth E. Reeves '72 lives in a rent-controlled apartment, as does Supreme Judicial Court Justice Ruth Abrams.
Rather than consistently providing low-income housing, rent control has created a byzantine city bureaucracy that enforces petty regulations. As often as not, those who can afford much more pricey apartments are living on the cheap, at the expense of taxpayers. The freeloaders include such luminaries as Cambridge Mayor Kenneth...