Word: rent
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...example, she said, if a city decided to implement rent control, it would have to compensate home owners for the difference between the ceiling and the market price...
...court ruled that the rent control ban is not simply a local issue. In the nine-page decision, the court noted that the 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...
...Rent control is thus an issue of statewide concern and is hence subject to the initiative process, the decision said...
...Massachusetts voters do throw out rent control, municipalities could still, in fact, implement it on a voluntary basis...
...Denise A. Jillson, president of the anti-rent control Massachusetts Homeowners Coalition, said last week that there would be a big difference...