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BOSTON--The state Senate narrowly voted yesterday to allow Boston and Cambridge to spread out the abolition of rent control over five years, but by a margin too small to override the veto Gov. William F. Weld '66 has promised...
...percent margin, state voters on November 8 supported eliminating rent control, which regulates rents on more than 16,000 units in Cambridge...
Boston, Brookline and Cambridge--the three communities in Massachusetts with rent-control laws--have filed home-rule petitions asking Beacon Hill to allow a gradual phase-out of the program...
Travaglini said a majority of senators had agreed that the petitions must each include a "sunset clause," which would allow a scheduled phase-out for eliminating rent control; an income-based means test to determine eligibility for remaining in a rent-controlled unit; and an adjustment to the definition of a rent-controlled structure...
...senator said rent control should only serve to protect the poor, disabled and elderly. The House will have to agree to any modifications the Senate makes in the petitions, he added...