renters

Massachusetts

Eviction proposal pits landlords against tenant group

BOSTON – Hundreds of tenant advocates and wary property owners crammed into a Boston City Council public hearing Monday to weigh in on a proposal that has the two groups at odds: Renters say it would create safeguards against eviction; landlords say it would slap them with thinly disguised rent controls.

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Study: Renters’ rise extends beyond big US cities to suburbs

NEW YORK (AP) — In the American imagination, suburbs are places to buy a house and put down roots. But a growing percentage of suburbanites rent, according to a new study. About 29 percent of suburbanites living outside the nation's 11 most populous cities were renters in 2014, up