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 ...

If voters approve Proposition 33, it would allow cities to put rent caps on properties and units that they currently cannot cap, including newer apartment buildings, single family houses and vacant ...

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 ...

Ohio has a deficit of 267,000 housing units, according to recent estimates. Due to this shortage, prices are skyrocketing and reached an all-time high in May earlier this year. The situation is ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

BOSTON (SHNS) – Even before it has advanced in the process of getting on the November 2026 ballot, real estate interests last week started to formally lobby mayors and regional chambers of commerce ...