Word: rent
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Cambridge, Boston and Brookline--the only three communities in Massachusetts with rent control laws--filed the petitions after the passage last month of Question 9, the ballot initiative to abolish rent control effective on January...
...three home-rule petitions, Boston's generated the most debate. The city's petition allows it to write a new rent control ordinance but gives no guidelines for who the new system would protect...
...Cambridge plan would eliminate rent control by July 1 for most units, but would extend rent control through 1999 for families earning less than 80 percent of the Housing and Urban Department (HUD) median-income guidelines, and for elderly and disabled tenants...
...Rent control--which the city adopted in 1970--restricts the rents of approximately 16,000 of the city's units, more than a third of Cambridge's total housing stock...
...rent control debate divided the Senate along partisan lines, with Republican leaders heading a vocal effort to amend, delay and finally reject the petitions...