Word: rent
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Citing a "constellation of hardships" for thousands of tenants, the judge let stand a ban on Question 9's enactment, which would end rent control January...
Armstrong said he made rent control the exception because Question 9's implementation would harm tenants in Cambridge, Boston and Brookline--the three state communities with rent control laws...
...controversy surrounding rent control is far from over...
...rent control laws remain in effect pending disposition of the court challenge, landlords and tenants will at least know where they stand legally," the justice wrote...
Certification of Question 9 would result in "a legal no-man's land of confusion where the authority of rent-control boards will be in doubt, as will numerous rent increase notices and, after January 1, eviction proceedings," Armstrong added...