Word: rentcontrolled
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...There were a lot more rights under rentcontrol," Cavellini said. "But one thing we'velearned in this period is that you can still putup a good fight."Seth H. PerlmanCrimsonHOME SWEET HOME:BILL CAVELLINI, amember of the grass-roots group Eviction FreeZone, urges the Cambridge City Council to allocatemore money for affordable housing in a protestMonday morning outside City Hall...
Turk campaigned to uphold rent control inCambridge, citing issues of tenants rights. But hesays that Fried opposed him, saying that rentcontrol had been abused and had caused adeterioration in housing and property values...
...Fried made the case of `statism' [in the rentcontrol debate]," Turk says. "He argued that localcommunities have very limited powers and that itis the state which grants and withdraws powers atits whim. I think he has severely warped what wasthe home rule relationship between localcommunities and their states...
Other CCA members disagreed. "At times, Ithought the CCA was too weak in defense of rentcontrol," said Lester P. Lee Jr., a tenantactivist and CCA board member...
...Malenfant does not believe he death of rentcontrol marks the end of the CCA's reason forexistence...