Word: rent
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Much of the CCA's base came from supporters of rent control, a 1970 initiative repealed by statewide referendum last November. Without their main issue, CCA candidates may be in trouble...
Buoyed by the fall of rent control and an overall desire for change among Cambridge voters, conservative candidates endorsed by the Alliance for Change are optimistic about their chances to gain control of city offices in the November 7 election...
This election, Winters says, will give Cambridge voters the chance, after the divisive debates last year over rent control, to establish a more conciliatory Council...
Winters says the most important issues now facing the city are "housing policy," since rent control ended and some of the "major hires" which Cambridge will have to make in the near future, including a new police commissioner and a new school superintendent...
Maddox, who was one of the chief sponsors of Question 9, a ballot initiative last year which ended rent control in Cambridge, said that while his effort to get the referendum on the ballot might not be successful in 1996, he is confident that by 1998, the smoking initiative will be on the ballot...