Word: rent
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Rent control was narrowly repealed in a 1994 statewide referendum. But residents in Boston, Cambridge and Brookline, the three communities with rent control regulations, voted overwhelmingly to keep protections...
...Cambridge, sources say that of the between 12,000 and 14,000 residents in rent controlled apartments before 1994, about 1,500 are still living under some form of protected status...
...neighborly feelings and close family ties have been swept away by a tide of rising rent costs and escalating property values...
...while he may be outspoken about Cambridge's ongoing gentrification process, Hill understands many of the concerns that the Bolognas express about the former rent-control regime...
Indeed, Cambridge's last mayor and a former rent-control tenant, Kenneth E. Reeves '72, became one of the most notorious symbols of well-to-do residents benefiting from poorly designed rent protections...