Inside Chicago's Activist Efforts to Secure Rent Control
Local organizers are pushing hard to get rent control on a spring referendum—but can their efforts succeed?
Rent Control
Preferential Rent Treatment Is Hurting New York City's Poorest Neighborhoods
The units are supposed to be protected from steep rent hikes. But thanks to a loophole, owners can seek big rent increases anyway.
Silicon Valley’s Extremely Expensive Bunk Beds
The secondary housing market in the Bay Area is blowing up, but collective living isn’t always “sharing.”
In Defense of Rent Control
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.