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 ...
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 negatively impacts housing affordability long-term, increases gentrification, and creates negative externalities. A majority of economists agree that rent control reduces the quality and ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Washington Post editorial board took a hard-line stance against rent control policies, arguing that "capping prices is a textbook policy failure" that ultimately leaves renters "worse off" than ...
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 ...