Article 6C4CP ‘A blessing’: is rent control making a comeback in America?

‘A blessing’: is rent control making a comeback in America?

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Paige Curtis in Boston
from US news | The Guardian on (#6C4CP)

Most renters spend more than a third of their income on rent, leading cities like Boston to introduce measures to stabilize rents - but not without opposition

For Paula Coar, rent control was a blessing".

Coar lived in a rent-controlled apartment in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with her sister and their children for over a decade in the 1980s and 1990s and credits the policy for the opportunities she was able to provide to her children.

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