Word: rent-controlled
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Eliminated by a state-wide referendum in 1994, rent-control regulations were gradually phased out over the past two years...
While the rent-control regime was often lampooned for supporting well-to-do tenants like former Cambridge Mayor Kenneth E. Reeves '72, it did allow low-income families to remain in Cambridge...
...building was among a number of expiring-use buildings that lost their rent-control status as a result of the 1994 state referendum abolishing rent protections...
Both feel that only a small minority of rent-control recipients will be forced to move out of the city as their rent goes...
Tenant advocates insist that if scrapping rent-control regulations does not force low-income residents out of the city, escalating property values and the paucity of low income housing will