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Speaker 1: There's a campaign called ket Massachusetts Home with supporters of

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Speaker 1: your proposed rent control initiative collecting signatures to get it

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Speaker 1: on the twenty twenty sixth ballot.

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Speaker 2: We need that seventy five thousand, and we're pushing strong

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Speaker 2: rover halfway there, but we'll need as much help as

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Speaker 2: we can get in these last three weeks.

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Speaker 1: That's cold Gibson with Reclaim Roxbury holding a rally with

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Speaker 1: several Boston City councilors.

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Speaker 2: It would change everything. Think more affordability across the board.

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Speaker 2: When it rents home ownership, people that have futures again,

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Speaker 2: youth might be a little bit less hopeful, hopeless and

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Speaker 2: of feeling lonely because they'll feel like they have a

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Speaker 2: path forward.

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Speaker 1: Meanwhile, the organization Mass Landlord calls the initiative a trick,

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Speaker 1: saying any city or town can adopt rent control measures tomorrow,

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Speaker 1: adding the initiative will lead to disinvestment of rental properties

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Speaker 1: at City Hall Plaza. James Rojas WBZ, Boston Some News

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Speaker 1: Radio