Word: renting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...voters approve 1-2-3, rent-control tenants will be eligible to purchase their apartments after living in them for at least two years. That would mark the most fundamental change in Cambridge rent control policy, which currently sets ceilings on rent levels throughout the city, since its inception nearly 20 years...
...certainly don't want Proposition 1-2-3 to be passed," says one 50-year Cambridge resident. "I need to be in a rent control apartment because I'm on a limited income and Social Security...
Those opposed to the proposition claim that it would decrease the number of available rent control apartments in Cambridge, foroing many low-income tenants out of the area...
...Most people living in this building cannot afford to live in Cambridge without rent control," says Grace H. Smith, who has lived in the same apartment on Chauncy St. for about 50 years...
...Cambridge has already changed a lot," says one rent control tenant on Broadway. "People want to live in 'hip places' and the people who made it sort of bohemian can't afford to live there at free market prices...