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Dozens of Cambridge residents clamored for a new rent control measure at a packed City Council meeting yesterday, despite persistent arguments by the measure’s opponents that it would never pass...
...Rent control—which establishes limits on the rates landlords can charge tenants—was one of the most divisive issues in Cambridge politics until the practice was abolished by the state...
...Massachusetts Homeowners Coalition, which hopes to keep the rent control issue off the November ballot, said 1,500 of the group’s signatures aren’t valid, according to Hoerst. The election commission will decide at a hearing tomorrow whether to accept the signatures...
Before it takes effect, the rent control measure must get on the ballot, win the support of one-third of all Cambridge voters, and then pass the State House—a series of obstacles that observers said are likely insurmountable...
Calling herself a “firm supporter of rent control,” Councillor E. Denise Simmons was the only member of the council who spoke in favor of the petition going on the ballot...