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This time, a relatively new player in the city's rent control politics, the Small Property Owners Association (SPOA), is threatening to scrap the system through the courts, vowing to take the fight to the U.S. Supreme Court, if necessary...
...John H. Natale, the 12-year owner of a four-unit, rent-controlled Cambridge townhouse, walked into Middlesex Superior Court and dropped off the lawsuit--the result of more than a year of planning and fundraising--against Cambridge and its rent control system. The plaintiffs in the case--SPOA and several individual landlords--are charging the system with nine counts of violating landlords' property rights...
...think that this is probably the most comprehensive attack on the system," says Denise Jillson, co-chair of SPOA and the owner of a four-unit rent-controlled building...
Small Property Owners Association(SPOA) Co-Chair Denise A. Jillson calls the reform package "much to-do about nothing...
According to Jillson, SPOA is in the process of orchestrating a legal challenge to rent control. She says that the group has raised $20,000 towards the $100,000 it has determined necessary for litigation, and plans to file with the courts later this year...