Word: rent-controlled
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...Cambridge landlord Steven Kapsalis begins serving a 58-day sentence in the Billerica House of Correction. He is the first person to be jailed for a violation of the city's rent-control laws...
Such a proposal has long been a pet idea of Councillor William H. Walsh, a vocal critic of the city's current rent-control system who has often drawn criticism from Turk for his close ties to the real estate industry...
More puzzling is her treatment of the conflict within the Cambridge Civic Association (CCA)--the good-government organization that endorsed her--over the issue of rent-control...
Some Harvard expansion policies were slowed by the strike of '69 and the rent-control and tenant activism which partly derived from it. The University Road apartments, and issue in the strike, have remained standing for 20 years. But Harvard's negative role in the Cambridge housing market has continued. According to the Cambridge Tenants Union, Harvard's lawyers and real estate managers have become experts at using loopholes in the rent-control laws to raise rents and "gentrify" apartments, worsening the affordable housing crisis in Cambridge. We also note that Harvard was recently in the news for welding over...
Supporters of the measure claim it will allow thousands of city residents to buy their own homes, while opponents claim the measure could devastate the city's 19-year old rent-control ordinance...