The policies promising to make housing cheaper can sometimes create problems politicians rarely talk about. The discussion ...

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 ...

Even before it has advanced in the process of getting on the November 2026 ballot, real estate interests last week started to formally lobby mayors and regional chambers of commerce against the ...

There may, in fact, be some cases where we should trust the experts. We all know rent control, or really any form of price control, is a terrible policy. It degrades the quality of whatever good or ...

The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court’s decision to keep the rent stabilization ballot question off the November ballot ended one legal debate, on a use of language. It did not end the housing ...

'We Got It Wrong': Mass. Top Court Throws Out Rent Control Initiative in Latest Election Ballot Ruling The seven-judge court held that Initiative Petition 25-21, which would have limited annual rent ...

For the AIDS Healthcare Foundation and other dogged supporters of extreme rent controls, the third time most definitely was not the charm in Tuesday’s election. The group backed Proposition 33, which ...

For the third time in six years, California voters will decide in November whether to grant cities and counties more power to regulate rents. Proposition 33 would repeal a 1995 law that curbs locals’ ...

On the day he launched his mayoral campaign, Josh Kraft went on the offensive, assailing Mayor Michelle Wu over her record on bike lanes and housing construction. That was no surprise. But one avenue ...

Apartment buildings along Broadway. Nearly a million apartments in New York City are rent-stabilized and another 22,000 are under more stringent rent control. At this moment in New York City, nearly a ...