I appreciate your article highlighting Mr. White’s experience living in Battery Heights. I am emailing because I feel the impacts of rent control are misunderstood or ignored and the benefits are ...

A business-backed group in Providence released a report warning against a proposed rent control ordinance. The report argues ...

It has been suggested that rent control or stabilization might be a way for us to address the urgent problem of a shortage of affordable housing. I believe it would make the problem worse. Although ...

Economists don’t need any more evidence that rent control is bad and new housing is good. But they’ll take it. The latest example comes from Minnesota, where the Twin Cities gifted us with a natural ...

No matter how one labels the arbitrary control of the amount of rent a property owner may charge a tenant for their property, it has ignited a pitched battle rife with misunderstandings. Somehow, the ...

The rent stabilization ordinance, which would exempt thousands of units, drew immediate opposition from the mayor ...

New York state is the prime example of the problems with rent control laws because the laws have been on the books for eighty years and the housing shortage only gets worse each year, writes ...

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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 ...