Word: rent-controlled
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...made a practice of selling off medium-sized houses under rent control to small land-lords who in turn qualify under the city code to evict rent-control tenants...
...tried to tear down a 93-year-old building at 8-10 Mt. Auburn Street, evicting rent-control tenants whose right to remain is still being thrashed out in the courts...
...Therefore, only 30 percent of the residents are the group that really controls what will happen in rent-control and in the city," and often those people are not the ones who really need government aid, he added...
Councilor William H. Walsh, who won his seat in 1985 as an opponent of rent control, said last week that he hopes to use a provision of a council ordinance to end the protection of rent-control apartments...
Council Ordinance number 966 stipulates that the protection of rent-control housing will expire if the amount of rental units in Cambridge exceeds the number of units in 1970, or if the city's housing vacancy rate tops 4 percent. Walsh has asked the city's rent control board to determine whether the former condition exists...