Andrew Cuomo's remarkably hypocritical attacks on Zohran Mamdani for living in a rent-stabilized apartment. A nonprofit tiny home builder's court victory over a Georgia town's large home mandates. Why ...

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Rent control policies are a hot topic in Colorado, as evidenced by the state legislature’s draft release of the first rent control bill before the 2026 legislative session even began. This and other ...

Renters usually learn landlord-tenant law the hard way, when something goes wrong. A repair gets delayed, a deposit goes missing, or a notice shows up on the door.

“Why do bad ideas return — even those that have been roundly rejected?” That’s the question a friend asked me when he heard about an effort to bring rent control back in Massachusetts. In 1994, ...

Few policies disgust academic economists quite like rent control. In the 1970s, the Swedish economist Assar Lindbeck famously described it as the “most efficient technique presently known to destroy a ...