Rent Control Could Join YIMBY Ballot Question for 2026 Vote
One set of housing advocates wants voters to repeal the statewide ban on local rent control laws. Another wants to lift yet another big barrier to building moderately-priced homes.
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.
Rent Control Ballot Question in the Offing for ’24
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 File Dozens Of Ballot Questions Proposing New Laws
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.
