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More important though than the question of whether Cambridge will succeed in its attempt to reinstate rent control, is whether it should even...
...subvert that decision is really not a right at all. A local community has the right to defy a barger political entity if and only if it thinks fundamental rights have been violated. In this case, the city would have to persuade the courts that the removal of rent control infringes on the defined liberties of its inhabitants. And that will be a hard case to make...
...fact, just the opposite is true. Cambridge, through its rent control policies, has violated the fundamental rights of property owners, and in so doing has badly distorted the Cambridge housing market. As basic economics would predict, rent control has led to shortages and ill-maintained properties...
...Cantabrigians seek to dismiss the voters' will on the issue of rent control, why should they bother to abide by other state mandates? Perhaps Cambridge should hold its own referendum to secede from the state entirely...
Asking them to do otherwise is futile. Let them drag rent control--a very dead horse--through the dirt. The time they waste will prevent them from doing more damaging things. And Gov. Weld can simply veto whatever they produce...