Word: rent
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While most legislators on Beacon Hill voted for Weld's bill, they said they were powerless to oppose it despite its severely limited protection for current rent-control tenants...
...filed his plan in defiance of the legislature's approval of a pre-existing plan, which would have given tenants greater protection. That plan--which the Senate yesterday passed, 21-16, following the House's approval last week--would have phased out rent control over two years for all elderly and disabled tenants, and for all tenants earning 60 percent of the HUD income guidelines...
Weld met yesterday with Rep. John E. McDonough (D-Jamaica Plain), who had shepherded the original plan through the legislature. Weld adamantly opposed two of McDonough's suggestions: the continuation of rent control boards and of vacancy decontrol plans, in which units are removed from rent control when their occupants leave. Boston and Brookline currently have vacancy decontrol programs...
...Maddox, the Cambridge attorney who wrote Question 9, said real-estate industry representatives had seized control of the rent control opposition. Real-estate groups gave the bulk of the campaign's funding. The Greater Boston Real Estate Board (GBREB), for instance, gave more than $75,000 to the Small Property Owners Association (SPOA), which fought for rent control...
...They're laughing all the way to the bank while the people who did all the work for Question 9 get kicked in the ass," said Maddox, who owns a rent-controlled condominium in Cambridge. Maddox and the small property owners' group supported a rent subsidy program rather than a rent control phase...