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 ...

For the third time in recent years, state voters are being asked to expand cities’ and counties’ power to control rent. Proposition 33, the latest such measure to make the ballot thanks to the deep ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Happy Tuesday and welcome to another edition of Rent Free. Last week, this newsletter offered a mostly negative assessment of both major presidential candidates' first-term housing records and likely ...

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 ...