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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bender and her cohorts say that approving Proposition 1-2-3 would not even help tenants purchase their apartments. Proponents of the referendum argue that the apartments would be sold perhaps as much as 50 percent below the market price because each apartment would have only one possible buyer. But a study sponsored this summer by those opposed to Proposition 1-2-3 concluded that significant discounts are unrealistic...

Author: By Matthew M. Hoffman, | Title: Cambridge's Perennial Issue Rears Its Head | 9/13/1989 | See Source »

More importantly, city residents will vote this year on Proposition 1-2-3, a binding ballot referendum that would fundamentally change the system by allowing some rent-control tenants to purchase their apartments after living in them for at least two years...

Author: By Matthew M. Hoffman, | Title: Cambridge's Perennial Issue Rears Its Head | 9/13/1989 | See Source »

Supporters of the measure say it will give thousands of city residents an opportunity to buy homes, which they otherwise could not afford. But 1-2-3 opponents contend that the proposition would cripple the rent control system and dangerously deplete the city's stock of affordable housing...

Author: By Matthew M. Hoffman, | Title: Cambridge's Perennial Issue Rears Its Head | 9/13/1989 | See Source »

...That was an argument based on rhetoric and not too much else," says Kennedy School student and study author Patrick J. Dober of the discount theory. In fact, Dober found, the average discount 1-2-3 would give tenants is a mere 8 percent...

Author: By Matthew M. Hoffman, | Title: Cambridge's Perennial Issue Rears Its Head | 9/13/1989 | See Source »

Dober based his study on the premise that the first part of 1-2-3 would place tenants in a position similar to that of tenants who lived in rentcontrolled apartments before the city's Removal Permit Ordinance...

Author: By Matthew M. Hoffman, | Title: Cambridge's Perennial Issue Rears Its Head | 9/13/1989 | See Source »

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