Word: rent
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Rent Control: To the People...
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...
Boomtown service workers find jobs but can't make the rent...