Word: rent
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...When I first came to the city council in the early '70s, rent control had just been adopted, but it was being so poorly administered that it was being completely ineffective," he says...
Duehay estimates that 1,500 housing units havebeen preserved for low- and middle -incomefamilities following rent control's abolition in1996...
Duehay, who has supported rent control from its inception, worked to improve the system by streamlining city agencies and making available hundreds of thousands of dollars in loans to lowincome families...
Duehay and others on city council foughttooth-and-nail against the loss of rent controlbut eventually lost the battle...
...rent control helped lead tochanging Cambridge. The mayor said his greatestdisappointment is his "failure to dealconstructively with the growing racial and classtensions created largely, but not sloely, by theend of rent control...