Word: rent
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While richer tenants could afford the increase in rent--which has increased an average of 15 percent since the end of rent control--and Cambridge's public housing was assisted with state aid, those in the lower-middle income bracket frequently left the city in search of cheaper quarters...
Since the end of rent control, the proportion of Cambridge renters with incomes greater than $60,000 has gone up from 14 to 25 percent, while those making between $20,000 and $60,000 fell from 62 to 55 percent, according to the city's Rental Housing Study, published...
...Cambridge residents have had to move out of the city because of the end of rent control and because prices have skyrocketed," says Cambridge City Councillor Katherine Triantafillou. "It's driving out the lower- and moderate-income families...
...defeat of rent control advocacy in Cambridge combined with its unique structure of city government may help explain different levels of political activism in the two cities...
Some Cantabrigians say that the clout ofadvocacy groups--traditionally a big part of thecity's political life--has been declining, theresult of rent control's abolition...