A landlord-led referendum proposal to change Hoboken’s rent control laws was given a lifeline when the city clerk determined the petition signature requirement is hundreds lower than initially announced. The petition by the Mile Square Taxpayers Association (MTSA), which was initially rejected last week for not having signatures and is in the process of being cured, now needs only 894 valid signatures to move forward — compared to the 1,356 the city requested at the outset, City Clerk James Farina said in letter Friday. This puts the petition by the landlord-interest group much closer to poten…
