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...Bolognas describe themselves as a struggling, working-class family, and say they sympathize with rent control's stated goal of aiding the disadvantaged. Yet after their experience with the system, they do not feel it is oriented toward those goals...
...late summer of 1986 two women moved into the main residence. Only 10 months later, they stopped paying rent and sued the Bolognas for overcharging rent...
...tenants' suit opened a Pandora's box of allegations by the rent-control board, many of them regarding the renovation work. But the couple insists the board knew about the work that was taking place but said nothing at the time...
...lawyer that they got to sue us, he used to work with the rent-control officers, and the hearing officer used to work for him. They were all buddy-buddy," Bologna says...
Just as it allowed their own family to rebuild, the Bolognas feel that the demise of rent control has an equally positive effect on Cambridge...