Word: rent
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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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...
Some estimates indicate that more than 2,000 of the city's 14,000 to 16,000 residents formerly protected by rent control will be unable to afford higher rents...
...studies attempting to gauge increases in rent caused by the elimination of rent control was put together last spring by two third-year Harvard Law School students working for Professor of Law Duncan M. Kennedy...
According to the Law School study, the median rent for studio and one-bedroom apartments increased by $375, or 79 percent, after rent control was eliminated...
While they anticipate drastic increases, city officials say that it is too early to quantitatively gauge the effects of rent control...