Word: rent
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...will press people to the edge of homelessness," says Michael H. Turk, chair of the Cambridge Tenants' Union (CTU), a pro-rent faction...
...Rent control was repealed by a statewide referendum which fully took effect January 1. Municipal elections will no longer pivot around the issue...
...Maddox, the author of Question 9--the November 1994 state ballot initiative which repealed rent control--denounces the former policy as "welfare for the rich...
...says the council ordered Maddox to rent out his condominium for $300 per month, a figure he estimates was $400 below market value...
Question 9 took effect January 1. But the state legislature's passage of Chapter 282 soon afterward assured that rents for those deemed "needy" by the city's rent control board would rise gradually, until the program was fully eliminated this December...