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...Cambridge's ever-increasing number of transient residents, Kartwicki represents a part of Cambridge's changing political landscape--a demographic change that has been accelerated by the end of rent control in 1995 and the economic boom of the past decade...
According to Glenn S. Koocher '71, host of the Cambridge political talk show program "Cambridge Inside-Out," rent control was the last issue to capture the constituency...
Instituted in Cambridge in 1969, rent control was a polarizing issue in local politics before it was narrowly defeated in a statewide referendum...
Although an attempt was made last year to reenact rent control, the petition to return the question to the ballot was thrown out on technicalities...
...while the end of the rent control question--what Koocher calls a "sexy" political issue--might have lowered political involvement, the story of Cambridge's declining activism is more complex...