Rent Control

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.

• By Karim Doumar

Local organizers are pushing hard to get rent control on a spring referendum—but can their efforts succeed?

• By Elizabeth King

The units are supposed to be protected from steep rent hikes. But thanks to a loophole, owners can seek big rent increases anyway.

• By Cezary Podkul

The secondary housing market in the Bay Area is blowing up, but collective living isn’t always “sharing.”

• By Susie Cagle

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.

• By Jake Blumgart