Square footage of current home: 900 sq. ft. Why should homeowners or market rate renters care about the status of rent control? Rent control should matter to homeowners and market rate renters alike ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

What do 90% of economists, the Brookings Institution, renowned left-leaning economist Paul Krugman and this Wilmington Councilmember have in common? We all think rent control is a bad idea. In a 2018 ...