Word: rent
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Walsh was re-elected last year while under indictment for defrauding a bank of $2.9 million. He is especially popular among elderly residents and property owners for his opposition to rent control...
Walsh's removal from the council comes in the midst of one of the worst crises in Cambridge in the last quarter century. The city council met daily this week, scrambling to salvage a form of rent control in the face of Question 9's narrow passage last week...
...council plans to submit a home-rule petition to the state legislature by Monday, asking Beacon Hill to let Cambridge keep a form of rent control...
Walsh has been the most outspoken opponent of rent control, charging that the 24-year-old program is abused by high-income tenants...
Walsh blasted the four options options offered by City Manager Robert W. Healy. They range from vacancy decontrol, which would remove units from rent control when their occupants leave, to making substantial modifications to the existing program...