Rent control is often mischaracterized as landlords versus tenants in a sort of Marxian proletariat versus bourgeoisie. On the surface, this characterization makes sense, as landlords would generally ...

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• Why are you running for the Rent Control Board and what would you like to accomplish if elected? To promote better policy. Over the last four years as your Rent Control Board commissioner I have ...

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

A proposal to bring rent control back to Massachusetts for the first time since it was banned in 1994 has overcome its first obstacle. On Sept. 3, Attorney General Andrea Campbell determined that 44 ...

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 ...

Rent control policies are a hot topic in Colorado, as evidenced by the state legislature’s draft release of the first rent control bill before the 2026 legislative session even began. This and other ...

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 ...

The Washington Post editorial board took a hard-line stance against rent control policies, arguing that "capping prices is a textbook policy failure" that ultimately leaves renters "worse off" than ...

The Legislature and Healey partnered in 2024 to pass a major new housing production law, an initiative that didn’t include rent-control proposals. The governor’s capital investment plan for fiscal ...