If rent-control measures pass in all of the states and cities where they're currently on the table, nearly a third of all renter households in the United States could secure relief.
Overturning limits on rent control will be on the ballot in California this November now that organizers have garnered enough signatures to certify Proposition 10.
Local organizers are pushing hard to get rent control on a spring referendum—but can their efforts succeed?
The units are supposed to be protected from steep rent hikes. But thanks to a loophole, owners can seek big rent increases anyway.
The secondary housing market in the Bay Area is blowing up, but collective living isn’t always “sharing.”
Rent control has long been criticized by economists, but the list of theoretical harms often aren't observable in reality. With a lack of serious public housing funding, the policy may be one of the best, and cheapest, ways to protect low-income families.
