State Attorney General Andrea Campbell on Wednesday certified nearly three dozen petitions for the November 2024 ballot, including one that would set up a high-profile battle over the future of rent control in Massachusetts.But first, rent control advocates will have to decide whether the divisive, sure-to-be-expensive fight is one they want to wage right now.Campbell certified a petition proposed by Rep. Mike Connolly, of Cambridge, that would strike out the 1994 state ballot measure prohibiting rent control and replace that law with one allowing cities and towns to set their own rules to cap rents and fees, regulate evictions, and “regulate removal of housing units from the rental market,” among other provisions. The petition would not apply to two- or three-family owner-occupied units, nor would it apply to newly built units for the first 15 years.
Source: Rent control ballot measure in Massachusetts clears first hurdle
