On Nov. 12, Los Angeles passed reforms to their rent control program, sharply curbing the amount that property owners are allowed to raise rents annually. Some have framed this as a victory for ...

Apartment buildings along Broadway. Nearly a million apartments in New York City are rent-stabilized and another 22,000 are under more stringent rent control. At this moment in New York City, nearly a ...

The call for rent control in Cape Town has a moral basis in the legitimate expectation that our public representatives will ...

Rent control negatively impacts housing affordability long-term, increases gentrification, and creates negative externalities. A majority of economists agree that rent control reduces the quality and ...

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Letting property owners decide how to use their own land is a far greater level of local control than allowing local governments to impose one-size-fits-all regulations. Ilya Somin is a professor of ...

This month, the Los Angeles City Council decided the city’s longstanding rent control policy needed changes. No, they didn’t do the smart thing and decide to eliminate rent control. Instead, they ...