Word: renting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more exciting in recent years because three council members are not seeking re-election, leaving it to voters to decide whether the liberal Cambridge Civic Association should gain a majority on the council for the first time in many years and what the future of the city's rent control system should...
...came primarily to vote against 1-2-3 and for the rainbow coalition," said Ray J. Dupree, a rent-control tenant...
Nearly all those queried said they voted against the referendum, which supporters have said would give people who would otherwise never be able to own homes the opportunity to purchase them. Opponents to the measure argue that it would cripple the city's rent control system by severely depleting the supply of rent-controlled housing in Cambridge...
...came to vote mainly for the 1-2-3," said Dorothy A. Adams, one of the few voters who said she supported the measure. "I've lived for six years in a rent-controlled apartment, and I want the opportunity to purchase...
Many voters criticized the referendum as a blow to rent control, saying that it would turn Cambridge into a "little Boston" and calling it "a scam by the realtors to get their hands on rent-control property...