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 ...

In a misguided effort to address rising housing costs, the Biden-Harris administration announced a proposal to cap rent increases at 5 percent for "corporate" landlords. While I don't I agree with the ...

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 ...

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 ...

For the AIDS Healthcare Foundation and other dogged supporters of extreme rent controls, the third time most definitely was not the charm in Tuesday’s election. The group backed Proposition 33, which ...

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Real estate interests in Massachusetts are lobbying against a proposed initiative to revive rent control, arguing it will ...

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 ...