Word: rent
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Lenore M. Schloming '59 inherited a nine-unit apartment building on Inman Street from her father in 1984. When she and her family tried to move into the building in 1989, they were stymied by rent control regulations instituted to protect her tenants...
Schloming says she is amazed at how difficult it was to live in her building, and as a result of the struggle she became actively engaged in the city's rent control debate...
...Rent control] looked like it never would end," Schloming says. "But I used to say that the Berlin Wall fell down, and the morning it happened, people didn't expect...
...Whether rent control was an iron curtain descended across Cambridge is a matter for debate, but in 1994, rent control's opponents had an insight into how to tear it down...
...three communities with rent control policies--Boston, Brookline and Cambridge--required special enabling legislation from the state government. If the landlords could get the state to ban rent control, they could circumvent the rent control-friendly city governments...