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Walsh compared Question 9, which repealed rent control for the 14,415 controled units in Cambridge, to a baseball game: after nine innings, the score was close but the game is over...
...Rent control as you know it is history," Walsh declared at Monday's meeting...
...attacked the four councillors affiliated with the liberal Cambridge Civic Association (CCA), who favor keeping as much of rent control as possible, with ignoring the will of the state's voters...
With the three other Independent councillors--Vice Mayor Sheila T. Russell and Councillors Michael A. Sullivan and Timothy J. Toomey Jr.--Walsh sponsored his own proposal Monday, to keep rent control for low-income, elderly and handicapped tenants for a maximum of three years...
...Independents later agreed to extend the proposal to protect these tenants for five years, after which rent control would be completely ended. The CCA-endorsed councillors favor permanently keeping some semblance of rent control...