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Rent Control’s Winners and Losers

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...

Is rent control making a comeback?

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...

Switzerland is putting its housing crisis to a referendum

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...