A battle is brewing on Beacon Hill over a longstanding contentious issue in housing: rent control.

A group of House lawmakers is getting ready to file a bill that would allow cities and towns in Massachusetts to impose rent control — which voters in 1994 banned statewide — and a variety of other measures to protect renters from eviction and steep hikes in their monthly payments.

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