Rent Control Backers End Ballot Question Campaign
The decision means rent control supporters only have one avenue left: the state legislature, whose leaders have been notably cool to the idea.
The decision means rent control supporters only have one avenue left: the state legislature, whose leaders have been notably cool to the idea.
Previous efforts to reverse the ban or revive the policies in a handful of specific communities have failed to gain momentum with legislative leaders.
Activists pushing a range of issues – from ending all tolls on Massachusetts roads to requiring that presidential candidates disclose six years of their tax returns in order to get on the Massachusetts’s ballot – filed dozens of proposed ballot questions with the state attorney general’s office by Wednesday’s deadline.