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 ...
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 ...
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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 ...
Some tenant advocates are hoping lawmakers will take up a legislative compromise to enact a version of rent control while ...
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 issue of high rents contributed significantly to Zohran Mamdani’s recent election as New York City mayor. His promise to freeze the rent for two million New Yorkers in stabilized units sounded ...
What do 90% of economists, the Brookings Institution, renowned left-leaning economist Paul Krugman and this Wilmington Councilmember have in common? We all think rent control is a bad idea. In a 2018 ...
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