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Known in Cambridge for its frequent public protests and drawn out testimonies to the City Council, the Small Property Owners' Association (SPOA) has found another outlet to express its opposition to the rent control system--the Middlesex County Superior Court...
...property owners' lawsuit against the city, filed last January, asks the court to declare the 22-year-old rent-control system unconstitutional...
...suit, based on a two-part, SPOA-commissioned study, alleges that rent control failed to accomplish its goals and has become a disproportionate public burden, when it should be the responsibility of the city government...
...Rent control was originally adopted to provide affordable housing for low to moderate fixed-income earners because of a "housing emergency...
...study, conducted by the same person the city hired three years ago to compile "Cambridge Housing Challenges," also states that most rent control tenants can afford to pay a higher rent...