Don’t Abandon the Housing Cure
The renewed interest in rent control, however, weakens that focus on addressing the problem by trying to manage the effects.
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What the Twin Cities teach us about how cities should—and shouldn’t—fix housing
St. Paul’s rent control ordinance capped annual rent increases at 3 percent for most units, regardless of turnover or inflation. ...
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What other cities can learn from New York’s decade of housing regulation
Each initiative was politically popular and framed as a temporary response to economic pressure. Yet taken together, these measures fundamentally ...
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COVID-19 exposed how bad policies cause affordable housing crises in cities
As the COVID-19 outbreak ran through the U.S., many cities enacted rent-control and anti-eviction policies meant to keep people in ...
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