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 ...

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The head of the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce said Sunday that rent control would not solve Massachusetts’ growing problem of keeping young professionals from leaving the region for cheaper ...

Nevada’s legislative Democrats have flirted with rent control as a means of addressing high housing costs. But their proposals have, thankfully, lacked sufficient support. Perhaps they should consider ...

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 ...

Earlier this week, Boston Mayor Michelle Wu endorsed a restrictive version of rent control that supporters are pushing for a ...

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 ...

By Richard Lanzarone, Ann Heaney-Korchak and Lisa Damiani  On his first day in office, New York City Mayor Mamdani headed to 85 Clarkson St. in Brooklyn to start his “Rental Ripoff” tour, where he ...

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