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About 16,000 housing units in Cambridge lost their protection under rent control. To compensate for this loss, EFZ founded its Campaign to Save 2,000 Homes to forestall evictions and keep rents down...
...They have tried to demonstrate that being a tenant is not a crime, and not being able to accommodate these exponential rent increases is not a deficiency," says City Councillor Kenneth E. Reeves...
...rent control also accelerated the process of gentrification that has overtaken Cambridge, and broadened EFZ's task...
Landlords have taken advantage of the housing shortage by evicting older tenants and increasing rents up to 300 percent, an action that would have been impossible under rent control...
...also returning to its roots, building a campaign to reinstate rent control...