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Candidates are reluctant to say that--advocating the return of rent control is a popular stance--but the likelihood of rent control making a comeback as a galvanizing issue is faint. And while there was an effort to get a rent-control initiative on the ballot, even rent control advocates admit its only purpose was to get people to the polls...
...Still, rent control continues to get people agitated--and it's not about to disappear from Cambridge's radar screen, as the city's several tenants-rights groups show...
Margaret McCarthy, 54, a stay-at-home mother, said she does not support rent control and doesn't mind that it is not on the ballot because "a landlord shouldn't subsidize a tenant...
...Rent control is a bad thing because it distorts the market," said the Lowell House resident. "It's clearly not worthwhile. The prices would not be driven that high without rent control...
...these voters had to be pushed to discuss rent control, though. They said they were voting because they felt it was a civic duty, and not necessarily because they were motivated by a particular issue...