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 ...

By Richard Lanzarone, Ann Heaney-Korchak and Lisa Damiani  On his first day in office, New York City Mayor Mamdani headed to 85 Clarkson St. in Brooklyn to start his “Rental Ripoff” tour, where he ...

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 ...

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 ...

Apartment buildings along Broadway. Nearly a million apartments in New York City are rent-stabilized and another 22,000 are under more stringent rent control. At this moment in New York City, nearly a ...

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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 ...

The head of the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce said Sunday that rent control would not solve Massachusetts’ growing problem of keeping young professionals from leaving the region for cheaper ...

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 ...