Boston City Council Proposes Law To Maintain Affordable Housing
“Several Boston City Councilors have filed a measure to prevent thousands of affordable apartments in the city from being converted to market rate units. Proponents say the city is at risk of losing more than 900 affordable apartment units next year alone, while critics complain the move is another attempt at reviving rent control, which ended in Massachusetts after voters narrowly approved a statewide referendum in 1994.”