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 ...

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 ...

Affordable housing is an issue in Reno, in Nevada, and in the United States — largely driven by a supply-demand problem. We have seen the price of homes escalate and don’t have enough land or ...

Living costs have increased rapidly recently, with housing affordability taking center stage. Higher interest rates have made purchasing a home less affordable, leading many to rent instead, and ...

California’s 2024 ballot includes 10 propositions. Prop. 5 would lower the required threshold to pass certain bond measures from a two-thirds supermajority to 55%. The SLO Tribune California might ...

Three decades after Massachusetts ended its disastrous experiment with rent control, voters are considering giving the policy ...

Rent control proponents like to argue that the policy will make housing more affordable. Now they're claiming it will also make it more accessible to people with disabilities. That's the thrust of a ...

In a short article I wrote, “Rent Control is Not the Answer,” I outlined some of the deleterious effects of rent control policies using standard economics tools. To be clear, by the term “rent control ...

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 ...

New York City offers a stark example of the problems created by rent control. The city’s framework, which allows tenants unilaterally to bequeath their rent-controlled apartments, has gutted landlords ...

The only sustainable way to lower housing costs is by increasing the supply of homes, letting the market balance demand and prices. Yet calls for rent control in Cape Town remain driven by emotion, ...