• Rent control in Massachusetts was a means of limiting the amount of rent charged on dwellings. There have been three instances where rent control was...
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  • In the United States, rent control refers to laws or ordinances that set price controls on the rent of residential housing to function as a price ceiling...
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  • a system of rent regulation involves: Price controls, limits on the rent that a landlord may charge, typically called rent control or rent stabilization...
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  • Rent regulation in New York is a means of limiting the amount of rent charged on dwellings. Rent control and rent stabilization are two programs used...
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    at the time rent control was repealed in Massachusetts, was living in the same rent controlled apartment he lived in as a Harvard student in 1973. Frederik...
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  • California state law, enacted in 1995, which places limits on municipal rent control ordinances. Costa–Hawkins preempts the field in two major ways. First, it...
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  • In neoclassical economics, economic rent is any payment (in the context of a market transaction) to the owner of a factor of production or resource supply...
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    response to the expulsion proceedings. His proposal to institute rent control in Massachusetts failed by a vote of 22-136. Connolly is 6 feet 8 inches tall...
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  • Ruth Abrams (category Lawyers from Newton, Massachusetts)
    to apply for a judgeship. In 1994, when rent control in Massachusetts was repealed, Abrams was living in a rent controlled apartment. List of female state...
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    City of Boston, is the capital and most populous city in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States. The city serves as the cultural and...
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    Rent-to-own, also known as rental purchase or rent-to-buy, is a type of legally documented transaction under which tangible property, such as furniture...
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    2019-08-28. Retrieved 2019-11-23. "Disabled Tenants Sue Oakland Over Rent Control Laws, High Cost Of Accessible Homes". 2019-08-28. Retrieved 2019-11-23...
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    year's rent. The patroons owned all the land on which the tenants in the Hudson Valley lived, and used this feudal lease system to maintain control of the...
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  • negotiate for benefits while slowing development in general. Some have cited high vacancy rates and high rents in high-demand cities as a sign that increasing...
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  • Kenneth Reeves (category African-American mayors in Massachusetts)
    1994, when rent control in Massachusetts was repealed, Reeves was still living in the same rent controlled apartment he first rented in the 1970s as a...
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    "Rent control was enacted in 1920". Mass Landlords, Inc. Retrieved January 3, 2024. Joyce, Tom (January 13, 2020). "Once Rejected by Voters, Rent Control...
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    The Province of Massachusetts Bay was a colony in New England which became one of the thirteen original states of the United States. It was chartered...
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  • founded. Passim and Plough and Stars in business. 1970 The Middle East restaurant opens. Rent control and Massachusetts Department of Transportation Volpe...
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    rent control. Rent control was repealed statewide in 1994 via ballot initiative. At the time, only Boston, Cambridge, and Brookline had rent control measures...
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    and Cambridge subsequently adopted rent control. In 1974, the voters of Lynn overwhelming repealed rent control. During the late 1970s and early 1980s...
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    32083°N 70.96667°W / 42.32083; -70.96667 Long Island is located in Boston Harbor, Massachusetts. The island is part of the City of Boston, and of the Boston...
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    vacancy decontrol clauses of rent control laws. The state of Massachusetts abolished rent control in 1994; afterwards, rents rose, accelerating the pace of...
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    The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has...
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    The 1918-1920 New York City rent strikes were some of the most significant tenant mobilizations against landlords in New York City history. Prior to the...
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    Alice Wolf (category Deaths from leukemia in Massachusetts)
    Breakfast, she was named an "honorary lesbian." During the era of rent control in Massachusetts, Cambridge prohibited any apartment from being vacant for more...
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  • control for most privately owned housing unites in Massachusetts, and would nullify certain existing rent control laws, except that cities and towns would be...
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  • housing in the state. A study by the National Low Income Housing Coalition rated Massachusetts as being the least affordable state in which to rent an apartment...
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    off the northeastern coast of Massachusetts, north of Cape Ann, United States. It is approximately 11 miles (18 km) in length. The island is named for...
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    Maura Healey (category Women in Massachusetts politics)
    serving as the 73rd governor of Massachusetts since 2023. A member of the Democratic Party, she served as Massachusetts Attorney General from 2015 to 2023...
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    The Massachusetts Turnpike (colloquially the "Mass Pike" or "the Pike") is a controlled-access toll highway in the US state of Massachusetts that is maintained...
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