Word: rent
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With an arsenal of tactics including letter writing, negotiations, lawsuits, and rallies and marches, EFZ has emerged as local tenants' primary defenders against evictions and steep rent increases...
...rent control in 1994 aggravated the housing shortage in Cambridge and forced EFZ to change its tactics...
...Rent control provided two important protections for tenants, according to Cavellini. It slowed rent increases, limiting landlord profit margins, and provided for a "just-cause" eviction process so tenants could not be evicted without reason...
Because of these protections, EFZ simply had to bring tenant complaints before a now-defunct rent control board...
...Needs money for:] Rent...