Anyone who’s ever taken Microeconomics 101 knows that rent control is a terrible idea. By keeping the price of housing artificially low, rent controls reduce the supply of available housing by ...

Living costs have increased rapidly recently, with housing affordability taking center stage. Higher interest rates have made purchasing a home less affordable, leading many to rent instead, and ...

Rent freezes, wealth taxes and price controls have all been tried and tested — and none of them actually work.

As real estate groups line up to fight the rent control initiative on the Massachusetts ballot this fall, a new economic report shows what may be at stake. An economic analysis conducted by the Tufts ...

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 ...

Rent control doesn't achieve its stated purpose, lower rents for people with less money. But it can also destroy the housing sector and make things much worse, There is no pixie dust in rental housing ...

The court found that the ballot question contained improper references to religion.

Kamala Harris has proposed a federal rent control scheme to bring down America's high housing costs. The Netherlands is providing a good example of how that policy might work out in practice. In July, ...

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