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Massachusetts Weighs Return of Rent Control
“A fight is heating up in Massachusetts over what could become one of the nation’s strictest rent-control measures,” the Wall Street Journal reports. “A group of housing advocates and labor unions want to stop landlords from raising rents by more than the state’s annual rate of inflation—but no higher than 5%—a year. They amassed enough signatures late last year to qualify their proposal for this November’s ballot, launching New England’s most p…
The debate over rental housing price controls has flared up again in Massachusetts: a referendum initiative by housing activists and unions could be on the fall ballot, which would introduce one of the strictest rent caps in the United States. The proposal is dividing the Democratic leadership: the mayor of Boston supports it, while the state's governor opposes the move, the Wall Street Journal reports.
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