Word: rent
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...perhaps the biggest change is the hole left by the emigration of longtime Cantabrigians to lower-rent neighboring towns like Somerville...
According to a recent survey sponsored by the city of Cambridge, roughly 20 percent of residents who lived in rent-controlled buildings have left Cambridge altogether...
Somerville was a natural place for them to turn. Having voluntarily stopped rent control in the 1970s, it was relatively unaffected by the 1994 state referendum which ended rent control...
Barbara Cassessl of the Somerville Election Commission confirms that, since the end of rent control, a large number of voters previously registered in Cambridge are now Somerville residents...
Most are members of the lower-middle class, the income group hit hardest by the end of rent control...