Word: rent
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Voters across the state will go to the polls in November to decide the fate of rent control in Massachusetts, thanks to a Supreme Judicial Court ruling yesterday declaring a referendum on the issue legal...
...electorate outlaws rent control, the ban would affect 16,000 Cambridge households--half its rental stock--and a quarter of the city's population, said Terry Morris, executive director of the city's Rent Control Board...
...rent control is abolished by the voters, Jillson says, "there will be strict guidelines, putting responsibility on the city or town...
...example, Jillson says, if a city decides to implement rent control, it would have to compensate homeowners for the difference between the ceiling and the market price...
...Jillson says she has conducted some "preliminary polling" which "looks good" for opponents of rent control...