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Rent Control in Cambridge: Is the Solution in Sight?

10--Create a Housing Access Office, which would help low and moderate income people find rent-controlled housing.

11--Hire an enforcement officer to ensure compliance with the Rent Control Board's rulings and regulations.

12--Eliminate transitional rent exemptions. The exemptions are now used to evict tenants, but were originally created to protect purchasers.

13--Consider converting more than 2000 units of federally subsidized housing, which will soon be on the open market, to rent control.

14--Make rent control information more available to the public.

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15--Define and certify affiliated rent controlled housing.

16--Offer low interest loans to small property owners who wish to repair their rent-controlled buildings.

17--Delay discussion of a minimum rent until verifying key facts.

18--Deposit city funds only in banks that loan money to repair and improve rent-controlled buildings.

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