Healey opposes proposed rent control ballot question

A proposal to enact statewide rent control could be in front of voters next year. Gov. Maura Healey is concerned that this could slow housing production.

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Gov. Maura Healey said Tuesday that she would not vote for a proposal that would enact rent control across Massachusetts.

In recent months, volunteers gathered tens of thousands of signatures in an effort to place a ballot question before voters next year. That question would give voters the power to establish rent control, which was banned statewide in 1994…

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