Word: rented
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...total of 5052 voters (about 12 per cent of the City's registered voters) signed the petition, according to the City's official signature count completed last weekend. The petition, sponsored by the Cambridge Rent Control Referendum, needed only 3290 signatures (eight per cent of the voters) to get on the ballot...
...council is now in its summer recess and a special meeting will have to be called to act upon the rent control petition. Yesterday, there was speculation that a meeting might be called for later this week...
Under the proposed ordinance which the petition supports, rents in Cambridge would be be frozen at January, 1968 levels. Increases of up to eight per cent would, however, be allowed to meet rising costs on the approval of a rent control board...
...rent control referendum was initiated last Fall by the radical Peace and Freedom Party...
Although still strongly backed by Peace and Freedom, the rent referendum organization is now at least overtly separate from the party...