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Supporters of Question 9, the ballot referendum which proposes elimination of rent control, have criticized a plan Healy issued earlier this month that would moderate the referendum's impact on rent-control tenants...
...formed the group this year to urge reform after a series of council setbacks last year, including a botched student referendum over a $10 term bill fee hike that would have increased the annual student contribution...
After months of legal wrangling and years of unsuccessful lobbying of the state legislature and various city councils, rent control opponents won the right to send the issue to a statewide referendum...
...Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled on July 14 that a rent control referendum does not violate the state constitution's protection of "home rule," or the right of localities to make decisions for themselves...
...some Kirkland House students last week received missives of a different kind from their superintendent, Kevin Higgins. To selected students (apparently those who vote in Massachusetts), Higgins sent a political message: vote against rent control in the November referendum...