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Question 9, the initiative to abolish rent control, was passed by a 51 to 49 percent margin on November...
...passed last night is expected to only cover between 10 and 20 percent of tenants currently under rent control...
...state House of Representatives and Senate passed a slightly altered version of a bill authored by Gov. William F. Weld '66, who had threatened to veto any other measure extending the life of rent control. Weld, who had left the state house by midnight, is expected to sign the bill today...
...factors made last night's vote urgent: the inauguration of a new legislature this morning, and an order last week from the Supreme Judicial Court (SJC)--the state's highest--allowing the state to certify Question 9, which abolished rent control, as of 12 a.m. this morning...
Weld had earlier vetoed a petition by Cambridge to phase out rent control over five years for elderly, low-and moderate-income and disabled tenants. The Republican governor insisted that "the verdict of the voters is fairly implemented...