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Although it is their home for nine months a year, most students are uninterested by contentious local issues such as rent control or the lack of low-income housing...
...Rent control has been systematically phased out of Cambridge over the past five years, but its support in the community has not died...
Though city policy has shown no signs of a return to rent control, many Cantabrigians continue to agitate for a reversal of the current approach as the city's skyrocketing rents push its demographic up and up--and its lower and middle-class families...
Shachter's proposal, similarly to the condo-conversion ordinance currently in effect in Boston, includes a list of factors that are early indicators that a landlord is thinking of converting a property into condominiums. One such factor is a hike in rent of more than 10 percent...
While the condo-conversion statute represents an effort by activists to make the best of a Cambridge without rent control, many are still hopeful for its return...