Word: rent-control
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...William F. Weld '66 signed an emergency act Wednesday that would grant a two-year reprieve of rent control's abolition for certain income-eligible tenants, but the act's limited protection for rent-control tenants have Cambridge landlords, tenants and officials in shock...
While most legislators on Beacon Hill voted for Weld's bill, they said they were powerless to oppose it despite its severely limited protection for current rent-control tenants...
...think that every tenant who gets one of those rent-control notices ought to go sit in on his lawn this Christmas and wish him a Merry Christmas," she added...
...There were concerns about the lack of a sunset clause and a voluntary means test," Travaglini said. An income-based means test is used to determine rent-control eligibility...
Boston, Brookline and Cambridge--the three communities in Massachusetts with rent-control laws--have filed home-rule petitions asking Beacon Hill to allow a gradual phase-out of the program...