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2. Boston Housing Authority - Wikipedia

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   t. e. The Boston Housing Authority ( BHA) is a public agency within the city of Boston, Massachusetts that provides subsidized public housing to low- and moderate-income families and individuals. The BHA is not a municipal agency, but a separate local entity. In the federal government model of the United States Department of Housing and Urban ...

3. Rent control in the United States - Wikipedia

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   New York State has had the longest history of rent controls, since 1920. New York City contains the majority of units covered by rent control. Rent control laws have stayed on the books for decades in New York because of an inadequate supply of "decent, affordable housing". The worsening in the rental market led to the enactment of the Rent Stabilization Law of 1969, which aimed to help ...

4. Rent control in Massachusetts - Wikipedia

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   In an independent study conducted of 2/3 of the rent controlled apartments in Cambridge in 1988, 246 were households headed by doctors, 298 by lawyers, 265 by architects, 259 by professors, and 220 by engineers. There were 2,650 with students, including 1,503 with graduate students. Those who lived in rent controlled apartments included

5. Rent regulation - Wikipedia

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   Forms of rent regulation. The loose term "rent control" can apply to several types of price control: "strict price ceilings", also known as rent freeze systems, or absolute or first generation rent controls, in which no increases in rent are allowed at all (rent is typically frozen at the rate existing when the law was enacted) A price ceiling will create a shortage in between Qs and Qd.

6. Boston University - Wikipedia

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   Boston University (BU) is a private research university in Boston, Massachusetts. BU was founded in 1839 by a group of Boston Methodists with its original campus in Newbury, Vermont, before being chartered in Boston in 1869. It is a member of the Association of American Universities and the Boston Consortium for Higher Education.

7. Massachusetts Housing Court - Wikipedia

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   Brooke Courthouse in Boston houses the Administrative Office of the Housing Court Department and is home to the Boston Housing Court. The Massachusetts Housing Court (also known as the Housing Court Department of the Trial Court) is a trial court in Massachusetts that hears eviction cases, small claims cases, and civil actions involving personal injury, property damage, breach of contract ...