‘Devil is in the details’: What Mass. can learn about rent control from Portland, Maine

this fall, massachusetts weigh in on whether or no have rent control. No com annual increases in rent but now interest is high an apartment has soared. rent control five years a to see what effect it's h market. A dynamic art scen shops, restaurants galore all with a picturesque ha I think now we're consider Everyone wants to be here that comes with that. Tha Maine was soaring rents i than half the residents a voters approved a rent co my gosh, it was, it has b Taylor works part time an degree. She says she prob move out of Portland if r weren't capped. It would checking of my bank accou would say a lot more job trying to jump from workl try to make sure I get en $100 increase. Rent contr rents and protect tenants and gentrification. The P says the ordinance protec that the city needs. Thos are the backbone of any c Massachusetts voters will if rent control should be increases would be capped up to 5% and buildings le would be exempt. Take a l changed in the boston are of years compared to rent main rent control makes s to tackle the affordabili But the business communit isn't the right answer to rent control first class, people still are scared, a while to sink in all th that come with it. Ned Pa and landlord in Portland, makes renovations and upk one year, two years, ther three years is not a big you need to start painting building, you need to rep these are improvements th starting to put off. And which everyone agrees is to the housing crisis. We big hit. Why would a deve when they can build in su rent control doesn't exis at the end of the day, it the creation of new house of new affordable housing And so rent control has b The devil is totally in t Dion believes some of Port be traced to the fact tha initiative and not a bill hearings and deliberations law. So that would be my rent control has promise, challenges in its own rig it and ensuring that all owners and tenants feel t proponents of the massach need to check a few more are that rent control wil in november. Governor Hea no fearing it would stunt while Mayor Wu will vote