"The effects were immediately seen by everyone and they were all beneficial," says the former vice president of Argentina's central bank.
"The effects were immediately seen by everyone and they were all beneficial," says the former vice president of Argentina's central bank.
Inflation and rent prices are down, and the country has a budget surplus.
Zoning laws, occupancy limits, and short-term rental restrictions are keeping housing off the market and driving up costs.
The Golden State has many bad policies in desperate need of reform. It's not obvious they had more than a marginal effect on the still-burning fires in Los Angeles.
Plus: Democrats' housing-lite postelection recriminations and yet another ballot box defeat for pro–rent control forces in California.
Justice Gorsuch shows more interest in property rights challenges than his colleagues on the Court.
Golden State voters decisively rejected progressive approaches to crime and housing.
A related initiative preventing the state's most prolific rent control–supporting nonprofit from funding future initiatives is headed for a narrow victory.
Proposition 33 would repeal all of California's state-level limits on rent control. It's passage could prove to be a disaster for housing supply in the Golden State.
Advocates unconvincingly argue that repealing California's limits on rent control will open up more housing for people with disabilities.
These policies may sound good on paper—but they would be disastrous in reality.
A free market for housing is one that benefits both renters and landlords.
To give storm victims the best chance at recovery, let local knowledge and markets guide decisions.
Javier Milei’s repeal of restrictive rent control laws increased housing supply and stabilized prices.
Columnists keep trying to find a coherent philosophy behind Harris' confused and contradictory policy agenda.
Plus: An alleged slumlord gets a "tenant empowerment" grant, Seattle's affordable housing mandates lead to less housing, D.C.'s affordable housing crisis.
The AIDS Healthcare Foundation has been dogged by accusations that it operates dangerous, dilapidated housing. Now, it'll distribute taxpayer dollars to tenant groups fighting for better living conditions.
The Dutch government's radical expansion of rent control is displacing tenants and aggravating a preexisting housing shortage.
Both propose awful economic policies that appeal to public ignorance.
Desperate to control soaring rents, the city council bans rental data tools while ignoring its own role in the housing crisis.
Plus: Kamala Harris doubles down on rent control, Gavin Newsom issues a new executive order on housing, and the natural tendency to keep adding more regulation.
It combines nationwide rent control with modest supply-side measures potentially freeing up "underutilized" federal property for housing construction.
Republicans and Democrats have both managed to get worse on housing policy in the past week.
Plus: A disappointing first round of "Baby YIMBY" grant awards, President Joe Biden endorses rent control, and House Republicans propose cutting housing spending.
The city's Rent Guidelines Board approved a nominal 2.75 rent increase for one million rent-stabilized apartments. That's below the year's 3.3 percent inflation rate.
Plus: The results of rent control are in, California's tiny home program gets minimal results, and yet another city eyes a crackdown on short-term rentals.
Price controls lead to the misallocation of resources, shortages, diminished product quality, and black markets.
Restricting the price of housing kills incentives to supply places to live.
Which is bad news for anyone hoping to rent a place to live.
Plus: The White House's rent controls, San Francisco's bad-to-worse turn on housing, and the latest unintended consequence of eviction moratoriums
Thomas agreed with the Court's decision to not take up two challenges to New York's rent stabilization law but said the constitutionality of rent control "is an important and pressing question."
Plus: Voters in Massachusetts reject state-mandated upzonings, Florida localities rebel against a surprisingly effective YIMBY reform, and lawsuits target missing middle housing in Virginia.
Plus: rent control behind financial problems at NYCB, public housing's corruption problem, and New York City's near-zero vacancy rate.
The new libertarian president believes in free markets and the rule of law. When people have those things, prosperity happens.
Plus: Ohio church sues the city trying to shut down its homeless services, another indigenous-owned megaproject approved in Vancouver, B.C., and a new report shows rapidly deteriorating housing affordability.
Plus: the Supreme Court weighs housing fees and homelessness, YIMBYs bet on smaller, more focused reforms, and a new paper finds legalizing more housing does in fact bring costs down.
Plus: Fort Collins tries passing zoning reform for the third time, Coastal California cracks down on Airbnbs, and state lawmakers try to unban rent control.
Plus: More local "missing middle" reforms pass in Maine and Virginia, Colorado court blesses crackdown on student housing, and Florida tries to escape its slow growth past.
Plus: the U.S. Justice Department says zoning restrictions on a church's soup kitchen are likely illegal, more cities pass middle housing reforms, and California gears up for another rent control fight.
The U.S. Supreme Court keeps putting off deciding whether to take up a challenge to New York's rent control scheme.
A new report details how the city's famed social housing system is suffering from diminishing affordability, deteriorating quality, and funding shortfalls.
Plus: Political campaigns will have to disclose if they use AI in their ads, the effort to rehabilitate rent control rumbles on, and more...
A new study from researchers at Northwestern University found that landlords were incentivized by rising rents to replace existing tenants with new market-rate-paying tenants.
Rent control is getting a rhetorical makeover from progressive policy makers.
The country's largest legacy rent-control policy is pushing building owners to the breaking point.
Today, voters will consider a citizen petition that would let landlords raise rents to market rates on vacant units.
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