Word: rent-control
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Question 9 opponents said the referendum violates the autonomy of local communities. "It's up to voters in those communities to decide on the bill," said Benjamin N. Nidus, a Cambridge rent-control tenant who voted yesterday at Gund Hall...
Supporters of Question 9, the ballot referendum which proposes elimination of rent control, have criticized a plan Healy issued earlier this month that would moderate the referendum's impact on rent-control tenants...
Healy's final proposal would reinstate the existing rent-control system with major modifications. Among other changes, the modifications would shorten the processing time of rent-control law suits...
...What bothers me the most about Healy's report is the thought of re-imposing the present rent-control system," she told the council last night...
...Jillson and other opponents of rent control claimed rent control is a state issue. The homeowners' coalition president points out, for example, that Cambridge forfeits $12 million a year in property taxes and Boston, which also employs rent-control, forfeits $17 million a year...