Assembly Bill 1157, known as the Affordable Rent Act, failed to advance out of the Assembly Judiciary Committee, marking the ...

The Washington Post editorial board took a hard-line stance against rent control policies, arguing that "capping prices is a textbook policy failure" that ultimately leaves renters "worse off" than ...

The Providence City Council unveiled its proposal to place a 4% cap on annual rent increases for most rental homes – a simple measure that members say would help stabilize housing prices while ...

Economists don’t need any more evidence that rent control is bad and new housing is good. But they’ll take it. The latest example comes from Minnesota, where the Twin Cities gifted us with a natural ...

Sign up for Work in Progress, a newsletter about work, technology, and how to solve some of America’s biggest problems. Few policies disgust academic economists ...

Los Angeles is one of more than a dozen California cities with rent-control laws, and by no coincidence, is one of the most unaffordable places to live. The City Council recently approved a proposal ...

LA has had rent control for decades. Still, most of the city’s renters pay more than what the federal government considers affordable. Everyone from President Donald Trump to New York mayor-elect ...

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 ...

The push to bring back rent control in Massachusetts could be put directly to the voters next year in the form of a ballot question. Housing advocates said Wednesday that they plan to collect ...

Escalating a divisive battle between housing advocates and the powerful real estate industry, the tenant coalition Homes for All Massachusetts said it will launch a campaign Wednesday to put a measure ...

The cycle repeats every other year in Massachusetts: A few legislators file a bill to legalize rent control — which voters here outlawed in 1994 — citing soaring rents and struggling families.