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 ...

Sure enough, an Urban Planning Aid study found that, during the three years after rent control began, investment in new ...

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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The cost of housing is a perennial political issue. Many see rent control as a way to guarantee affordable housing, especially in areas with rapidly rising rents. They view rent controls as providing ...

Scotland is expected to get its first long-term rent controls as MSPs enter their final debate of new housing legislation. About 400 amendments to the Housing (Scotland) Bill will be examined at ...

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 ...

Los Angeles is one of more than a dozen California cities with rent-control laws, and by no coincidence, is one of the most unaffordable places to live. The City Council recently approved a proposal ...

Emmanuel Hovey Kporsu cautioned landlords against breaking into abandoned properties, but to follow lawful procedures He explained the “abscondant process,” which required landlords to report cases ...

Nikhil Datta receives, or has received funding from the Nuffield Foundation, British Academy, Leverhulme Trust and the Economic and Social Research Council. Jan David Bakker has received funding from ...

Illustration: Joanna Andreasson; Source images: iStock, courtesy of the spokesperson unit of the president of Israel Martín López is an Argentine landlord, but in recent years he felt more like a ...