Rent control is often mischaracterized as landlords versus tenants in a sort of Marxian proletariat versus bourgeoisie. On the surface, this characterization makes sense, as landlords would generally ...

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

• Why are you running for the Rent Control Board and what would you like to accomplish if elected? To promote better policy. Over the last four years as your Rent Control Board commissioner I have ...

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 ...

A proposal to bring rent control back to Massachusetts for the first time since it was banned in 1994 has overcome its first obstacle. On Sept. 3, Attorney General Andrea Campbell determined that 44 ...

Rent control policies are a hot topic in Colorado, as evidenced by the state legislature’s draft release of the first rent control bill before the 2026 legislative session even began. This and other ...

The rent is too damn high. But rent control is not the solution. The idea is back in the spotlight in the Bay State, thanks to advocacy group Homes for All Massachusetts proposing a ballot question ...

Instead of introducing regulations that will disincentivize multifamily investment, policies should focus on removing ...

Editor’s note: This is the seventh installment in a series examining the roots of America’s housing crisis. To read the earlier pieces, visit the roots of today’s housing crisis. In the 1960s, the ...

Politics / StudentNation / Proposition 33 could overturn the controversial Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act, which has limited rent control policies in the state for decades. Amber X. Chen and Maggie ...

What do 90% of economists, the Brookings Institution, renowned left-leaning economist Paul Krugman and this Wilmington Councilmember have in common? We all think rent control is a bad idea. In a 2018 ...