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fun_guy02142 t1_itsnov4 wrote

Reply to comment by Ok_Durian8772 in Cambridge completely eliminated parking minimums yesterday!! by RealBurhanAzeem

Rent control doesn’t work. We had it for decades and overwhelmingly got rid of it in the 90s.

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Ok_Durian8772 t1_itsr6xd wrote

Rent control DOES work, you just can't let landowners and City Councilors ruin it. I'm from Cambridge, you just got there... Rent control made sure that Cambridge was a diverse city to live in, now it's just rich twits that think they know what Cambridge is. Rent control worked it kept the schools full of brown children, now you got none. Rent control did a great job making sure that the people were living in cambridge, now you have swimming pools that aren't for everybody.. You know nothing Jon Snow

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fun_guy02142 t1_itsseag wrote

I don’t know who you think you are talking to, but I’ve lived in Cambridge for almost 30 years. All rent control did was allow people to live in squalor because landlords had no incentive to make their apartments habitable.

Study after study has shown that rent control doesn’t work as a policy that keeps housing affordable.

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Ok_Durian8772 t1_itsv9ac wrote

I'm talking to YOU, now. I was BORN, RAISED in Cambridge until chased out.

If you did nothing to STOP those landowners, you are part of the problem.

Schools closed, and now Parking Spaces is how you fix the problem? Seriously? Again... Pat backs now. And if you aren't renting, you need to hush.

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fun_guy02142 t1_itswz0b wrote

Cambridge has a greater percentage of affordable housing than just about any other city in Massachusetts

http://www.massaffordablehomes.org/localrankings.aspx

I’m sorry you couldn’t afford to keep living here, but rent control wasn’t the solution.

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Ok_Durian8772 t1_itt8plu wrote

"Affordable Housing"? Affordable to whom? The people that worked at NECCO?

Lol

Another clueless, and condescending person that moved to Cambridge. You UNCambridge when you bring your ideas and impose them on us. NOW... go research George Rothman.

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Sloth_Flyer t1_itukhw4 wrote

This is the cringiest thing I’ve read all week. Literally no one gives a fuck how long you’ve lived in Cambridge and it has nothing to do with whether rent control is a good idea.

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Ok_Durian8772 t1_itv7nmz wrote

Cringe away, Columbus🦥. It does have everything to do with me being here long enough to know that rent control was working, it was greedy landowners that screwed it up, and the people suffered because of it... (History is repeating itself, hardcore) Rent control kept people in the city modest. Alice Wolf never would have approved this... We're all fake excited about your new found generational wealth, but trying to exact your will onto the people of Cambridge just because you got a little piece of a $200,000 house which is now a million dollars - nobody is fooled by your antics except for people like you!

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