Word: rent
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Mayor Reeves, however, declared the city will go all out to preserve rent control, the housing program which began in Cambridge in 1970. "We will try to see if we can save as much rent control as we can," he said last night...
...addition, the city has set up a telephone hotline for tenants in Cambridge's 14,415 rent-controlled units, which constitutes more than one-third of all the city's apartments. The number is 349-INFO...
Healy said Question 9 "creates very difficult problems" for the city. "The abrupt climination of rent control would cause great hardship for many people and undoubtedly have far reaching and unpredictable impacts on the character and diversity of our community...
...city manager cautiously stopped short of saying the city will seek a reinstatement of some form of rent control...
...city might petition the state legislature to restore rent control as its currently exists or approve a new system with reforms...