Word: rent-controlled
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...Some people] cannot afford to live in Cambridge [any more]," Duehay says. "It's becoming more of an upper-middle class than a diverse community, and that is inevitable with the loss of rent-control...
Although the Alliance is somewhat more conservative than the CCA, the resolution of the previously divisive rent-control issue has brought the two parties together, Turkel said. "They are [now] very similar in ideology," she said...
Implemented in the 1970s, rent control helped provide low-cost housing to residents in Cambridge, Boston and Brookline. Detractors, including many area landlords, claimed the program was rife with abuse, even citing then-Mayor Kenneth E. Reeves '72 as an example of a rent-control tenant who did not need any protection...
...after Question 9's passage, the City Council passed, 8-1, a resolution asking the state legislature to extend rent-control protections...
...this year, the last rent-control apartments in Cambridge lost their protected status. Since some rents have tripled since then, council members have focused on developing affordable housing for low-income families as an alternative...