Democrats push the REST Act to let upstate New York adopt rent stabilization using data beyond vacancy studies, drawing ...

With America’s rent crisis deepening, state and local leaders should use rent control to protect residents, preserve ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

Next year, Massachusetts voters could have the chance to enact rent control across the state. Homes for All Massachusetts, a coalition of housing advocacy organizations, announced this week that it ...

Happy Tuesday, and welcome to another edition of Rent Free. This week's newsletter takes a look at the bad idea in housing policy that never seems to die: rent control. In Massachusetts, housing ...

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 ...

Rent control is a bad housing policy that won’t go away. Unfortunately, this term, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to review not one, not two, but three cases that challenged New York City’s 2019 ...