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Section 2

Citation
Section 2
Parent Document
Altschuler v. Boston Rent Board, 425 N.E.2d 781 (1981)
Jurisdiction
Massachusetts (state)
Effective Date
1981-09-22

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The landlord contends that the scope of Regulation 11, § 5(A)(3), will become indefinite and unpredictable if we construe a statute as “governing conditions of habitability” where habitability is merely “affected.” Whatever the merit of this argument in another context, we think that it has no application here. We read the emphasis contained in the judge’s language above as indicating a finding that habitability was, in fact, materially affected. Moreover, as discussed supra,