Word: suited
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Because of this history, many rent-control activists say that much of the suit is frivolous...
...suit charges that there is no longer any public need for rent regulation and that the system--considered one of the most restrictive in the country--unfairly takes control of landlords' property by not allowing them to leave their buildings vacant or destroy or convert them into condominiums. The suit charges that the city does not compensate landlords for their loss of rights, in effect forcing them to pay for much of the city's affordable housing program...
...suit asks the court to declare the system as it stands unconstitutional, to make major changes to it to make high rent increases easier to obtain, to allow landlords to destroy or convert their rent-controlled buildings, and to order Cambridge to repay landlords the rents they lost unfairly, their court costs plus all interest...
...Different Sort of Suit...
...recent SPOA meeting, the lawsuit was on every landlord's lips, and it seemed as if all the landlords had different opinions on just how to move ahead with the suit...