Word: rent
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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About 100 Cantabrigians marched from Mass. Ave and River Street to City Hall Saturday afternoon to protest recent rent increases and evictions in the wake of the 1994 abolishment of rent control...
...conversion law would prevent landlords from making previously affordable housing units into condominiums. Home rule would grant Cambridge the ability to keep certain housing--that had been subsidized by the government--under rent control...
Rally participants singled out Stu-Lin Realty--the largest owner of Cambridge property after Harvard University--for raising rent substantially and then evicting tenants who could...
Patricia A. Casola, chair of the Fresh Pond Tenants Association, said that the current one-year housing voucher system in Massachusetts--which allows tenants evicted under rent control to stay in government subsidized housing--a "temporary band-aid on a problem that requires surgery...
...Didn't Die: It has been called Pontiac's Second Rebellion (the first began in 1763, when the eponymous Indian chief made war against the English). People here rose up against high-volume discounters draining the life from downtown. The old city hall was turned into a low-rent "business incubator" for successful niche shops that went on to colonize Main Street...