Word: referendum
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Opponents of rent control were angered by a contingency plan Healy issued last week in the event that rent control is abolished by a state referendum November...
Healy's report, issued last Monday, details legislative and legal strategies the city could take if voters approve Question 9, which would kill rent control after 24 years in Cambridge. The issue will be decided in a state-wide referendum on November...
...most drastic section of the plan, the council would petition the state to completely reinstate rent control in its present form in effect undoing the state referendum. About 16,000 housing units in Cambridge are covered by rent control...
...Liston said in a statement that a referendum conducted last May proved that students oppose the measure...
Liston emphasized in his statement that 60 percent of the student body opposed the fee hike in last year's referendum. But last My, Liston was pointing to a different referendum figure--the 22 percent student turnout, which, he said, proved that students were deferring to the council's decision...