Word: controller
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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After the defeat of the Housing Authority ordinance the Peace and Freedom Party wrote a similar rent control ordinance and collected the necessary number of signatures to get the rent control question put on the local ballot as a referendum...
However rent control wasn't going to slip onto the books that easily. Cronin gave his opinion that the ordinance was illegal for two reasons. First, an independent expert investigation would have to be made to determine whether or not a housing emergency actually existed in Cambridge, and second, the appropriation of $5000 mentioned in the ordinance was inappropriate because funding is a function that belongs to the city manager...
Partly because of Cronin's conservative legal advice the election commission voted to keep the rent control ordinance off the November '69 ballot...
...Peace and Freedom Party appealed the election commission's ruling but Middlesex Superior Court Judge Henry Leen upheld the ruling in a decision that had a major effect on the future of rent control. Not only did Leen rule out the referendum but he also gave his opinion that no city-instituted rent control program could be put into effect unless the General Court had expressly sanctioned it. He ruled that section 43 of the General Laws specifically gave the power to institute rent control to the General Court and not the individual cities and towns of the Commonwealth. This...
WHEN THE GENERAL COURT finally did pass a rent control law, Cambridge was the first city to adopt it. If Cambridge finally gets to the point of actually administering the law, the Cambridge rent control administrator will be the first in the state to interpret he law's provisions...