Word: rent
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...current rent control system is rotten to the core...
...over Cambridge's most perennially divisive political issue--rent control--heated up last year as landlord groups campaigned for a statewide referendum that would end the policy once...
...battles have already been settled, some are being waged currently, and more are sure to be fought before one side is victorious in the conflict, which began in Cambridge with the inception of rent control here in the 1960s...
...Massachusetts, only Cambridge, Boston and Brookline still have rent control laws...
...renters call themselves a "ragtag tenants' group" compared to a groups of wealthy landowners with virtually unlimited funds vital to a statewide campaign. They say the end of rent control would lead to skyrocketing rents, which would force many tenants out onto the streets...