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BOSTON--The state Senate will decide today on petitions from Boston, Brookline and Cambridge to preserve rent control in spite of Question 9--the ballot initiative passed last month that would eliminate rent control effective January...
...William F. Weld '66 confirmed yesterday that he plans to veto any petition that would maintain rent control past January 1. "I would send back the three [petitions] that passed the House," he told The Crimson. "'Send back' meaning 'veto,'" he later clarified...
...panelists also argued that rent control is essential to the success of small business because it helps to reduce the crime rate...
...Rent Control means a lower population turnover, a lower population turnover means a lower crime rate," said John Pitkin, chair of the Mid-Cambridge Neighborhood Association. "Businesses have chosen Harvard Square because it is safe...
...staff's desire to attack "free-loaders" who exploit the loop-holes of rent control, it ignores the fact that elderly residents, artists and students (including me) depend on rent control for their housing in Cambridge...