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Nevertheless, King sought and won the endorsement of the Cambridge Civic Association—the local party whose heart issue was once rent control—because he agrees with the party on issues such as preserving open space and the importance of reserving some land for new housing...
King has opposed rent control since his childhood, he says...
...Rent control didn’t always benefit those who needed the financial boost, King says...
...There were a lot of affluent people living in rent-controlled apartments,” King says...
Helping residents to actually purchase houses is a better plan than attempting to re-establish rent control, because it would not create the same “dependency atmosphere” Cambridge had when the city mandated rents, King says...