by IPOANS | Dec 7, 2021 | News
Go to any booming urban center these days, whether in Boston or Washington or Atlanta, and one thing is certain: Rental costs are frighteningly high. In San Francisco, perhaps the poster city for housing sticker shock, the average one-bedroom rents for about $3,300 a...
by IPOANS | Dec 7, 2021 | News
The 1970s sparked some cultural trends that have since fallen out of favor, such as disco and platform shoes. Among housing economists, the 1970s are infamous as the decade that a smattering of U.S. cities adopted or expanded rent regulations. Since then, rent...
by IPOANS | Dec 7, 2021 | News
Amid rising rental prices in urban areas, Swiss voters are being asked to decide on a proposal that will impose a 10 per cent minimum quota of social and affordable housing on new residential development nationwide. Six out of 10 Swiss residents live in rented...
by IPOANS | Dec 7, 2021 | News
Rent control, touted as a strategy to protect residents from rising house prices stemming from demand far surpassing supply, has backfired, according to Bloomberg opinion columnist Andreas Kluth in “Berlin’s Rent Controls Are Proving to Be a Disaster.” Link to...
by IPOANS | Dec 7, 2021 | News
“I worry about Berlin,” says Rolf Buch, a born and bred Rhinelander. The chief executive of Vonovia, Europe’s biggest residential-property firm, thinks that the city’s policy of capping rents has achieved little good, but caused severe collateral damage. Even if the...
by IPOANS | Dec 7, 2021 | News
When affordable housing activists see “luxury” apartment buildings going up in gentrifying neighborhoods they sometimes assume that the apartment buildings are causing the rents to go up. Back in 2015, for example, activists called for a moratorium on new housing...
