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 ...

Rent controls can help to make housing more affordable in cities like New York. But they must be part of a broader solution to the housing crisis that involves increasing density and building more ...

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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 ...

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 ...

On Nov. 12, Los Angeles passed reforms to their rent control program, sharply curbing the amount that property owners are allowed to raise rents annually. Some have framed this as a victory for ...

Housing and high rental costs have been a major issue for the UK in the past decade. While other countries have moved towards protections for renters, rent control has not been a widespread feature of ...

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 ...

The Acting Commissioner of the Rent Control Department, Frederick Opoku, has questioned the huge cost of rooms rented out to ...

In that time, we already started to notice the first cases of people sleeping in tents and sleeping in their cars, and people being ‘renovicted’… Rent control and vacancy ...

The Rent Control Department has announced a nationwide compliance exercise targeting hostel operators around tertiary ...