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...council later held a hearing on the threat of fires in Cambridge. Stacie Marinelli, a tenant advocate, proposed a five point plan for preventing and coping with fires...
Proposition 1 says that if you have been a tenant in a rent-controlled apartment for two years, and if you wish to buy your home (and if your landlord wishes to sell it to you), you can do so. Under Proposition 1, you will not be required to buy. If you prefer, you can continue to rent forever at a low, rentcontrolled rent, just as you can now. But under Proposition 1, you will be given your choice...
Since you, the tenant, will be the only person in the world who can buy that rent-controlled apartment (your own home), you have unique bargaining power. Many landlords have indicated to me they would be happy to sell for about half-price (half of what the market price would be, were there no city restrictions...
...When a tenant buys his or her own apartment, that does reduce the number of rental units in the city by one. That, quite understandably, upsets my opponents. But the purchase also increases the number of owner-occupied homes, by one. Is that really...
City and state laws already in existence severely punish landlords for harassing tenants out of a rentcontrolled apartment or for demanding anything at all besides the legal rent. It will remain illegal for any landlord even to ask a tenant to buy an apartment before renting...