Word: rent
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After months of legal wrangling and years of unsuccessful lobbying of the state legislature and various city councils, rent control opponents won the right to send the issue to a statewide referendum...
...Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled on July 14 that a rent control referendum does not violate the state constitution's protection of "home rule," or the right of localities to make decisions for themselves...
...city of Cambridge, as one of only three Massachusetts municipalities where rent control is legal, argued that it would be unfair for the entire citizenry of Massachusetts to make a decision that would impact just three cities...
...court ruled that a rent control ban is not simply a local issue. In its nine page decision, the court noted that it is "within the power of a municipality to enact a rent control program only when the [State] Legislature has explicitly delegated that power to the municipality...
...Massachusetts voters outlaw rent control in November, the ban would affect 16,000 Cambridge households--half its rental stock--and a quarter of the city's population, according to the executive director of the city's rent control board...