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BOSTON--Demanding that the state legislature pass three petitions to preserve forms of rent control, more than 150 Massachusetts residents gathered at the State House yesterday to lobby legislators and the governor...
...last month's election, state voters approved Question 9, the ballot initiative to repeal rent control effective January 1. But Cambridge, Boston and Brookline--the three communities with rent control--have petitioned Beacon Hill to allow a gradual phasing out of the program...
Weld, a resident of Cambridge, has indicated he will veto any home-rule petition to maintain rent control. It remains to be seen whether the legislature would be able to override a gubernatorial veto...
Among the five disputed referenda is Question 9, which would repeal rent control effective January...
Zobel's restraining order is a setback for supporters of Question 9. But anti-rent control leaders denounced the suit yesterday...