Word: renting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...According to Mahoney the "opinion referendum" would give the people of Cambridge a chance to voice their opinion on rent control without running into the legal blockade met by a binding referendum...
Three Cambridge City Councillors will ask the Council today to place an "opinion referendum" on rent control on the November 4 election ballot. The referendum would enact no law but would permit people to vote on the concept of rent control...
Councillors Thomas H. Mahoney, Barbara W. Ackermann, and Cornelia B. Wheeler will also ask the Council to request that the State legislature permit the City to enact a rent control...
...take effect, both proposals will need the support of five of the nine councillors. Last summer the Council defeated a rent control proposal by a 5-4 vote...
...action follows a court ruling last week which denied a request by the Cambridge Peace and Freedom party for a rent control referendum. The court ruled that a rent control law would be unconstitutional if passed and therefore could not be placed on the ballot. The Massachusetts State Constitution states that the legislature must give permission before a city can enact rent control...