Word: rent
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...meeting was preceded by one of the first outbreaks of violence over rent control. In the closing moments of a SOCC rally that started at noon, Al-WeQayan was subdued by five Cambridge police officers and removed in a police wagon...
Natale appeared to have been hit by the wooden stick on which the sign was attached. He struggled briefly with Al-WeQayan, who was forcibly pulled away by Tom D. Sullivan, 35, a Boston resident who owns a rent-control building in Cambridge...
...unexpectedly, the City of Cambridge is attempting a massive last-ditch effort to save rent control. In response to the passage of Question 9 in the recent statewide referendum which abolished the practice, Mayor Kenneth E. Reeves '72, City Manager Robert W. Healy and City Councillor Jonathan S. Meyers are among those teaming with House Speaker Charles F. Flaherty (D-Cambridge) in the crusade to defend the failed policy...
...circumvent the expressed will of Massachusetts, Cambridge is trying to formulate a home-rule petition that will allow the city to keep a modified form of rent control. It faces serious obstacles, not the least of which is division within the pro-rent control community...
...recent Cambridge city council meetings, several groups submitted proposals, but no consensus emerged. If the petition is not filed by Thanksgiving, the units under rent control will go on the open market as of January...