Word: rent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cambridge Rent Control Referendum is virtually certain to have enough valid signatures to get its petition for rent control onto Cambridge's November 4 ballot...
...rent control ordinance which the petition supports would freeze rents in Cambridge at January, 1968 levels, although rent increases of up to eight per cent to meet increased costs could be made with the approval of a rent control board...
...within 20 days, the council does not pass, without amendments, the rent control ordinance proposed by the initiative petition, the ordinance is then automatically put to the others, who can either pass it into law, or defeat...
...council will probably meet Monday, August 11 on the rent control petition. Since Mayor Walter J. Sullivan is out of the country, city councillor Alfred E. Vellucci who serves as the City's vicemayor, will preside at the meeting...
...seems unlikely that the council will pass the ordinance at that time, since they have twice refused a request from the Cambridge Housing Convention to pass a similar rent control bill...