Massachusetts voters narrowly approved ending rent control for the entire state in 1994. But in a seven-hour hearing on Beacon Hill this week, advocates said it's a different world now — and it's time to bring back limits to rent hikes.
Renters' rights groups rally outside the Massachusetts State House in Boston on Jan. 14, 2020, also flooding the Joint Committee on Housing on Beacon Hill, to call for the return of rent control.
Supporters pointed out that when rent control was outlawed, three communities that actually had rent control — Boston, Cambridge, and Brookline — voted to keep it.from Reps. Mike Connolly and Nika Elugardo, would let municipalities seek their own forms of rent stabilization. They could also establish just cause eviction ordinances, where landlords could only evict for specific reasons, including failure to pay rent or using an apartment for illegal purposes.
Under the proposals, local officials would determine how much rents could be increased annually: Rodger's bill sets a maximum limit of 5%, while the Connolly/Elugardo bill leaves that to each city and town.
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