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City-wide effects of new housing supply: Evidence from moving chains
Housing affordability is a major issue in most cities throughout the world.
Who Pays for Rent Control? Heterogeneous Landlord Response to San Francisco’s Rent Control Expansion
Steadily rising housing rents in many of the US’s large, productive cities has brought the issue of affordable housing…
What does economic evidence tell us about the effects of rent control?
Steadily rising housing rents in many of the US’s large, productive cities have reignited the discussion whether to expand or enact rent control provisions.
Rental Housing Affordability In Nova Scotia, Gardner Pinfold Consulting
Rental Housing Affordability In NS Gardner Pinfold Report
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…
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.
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…
Berlin’s Rent Control Effort: A One-Year Lookback
Rent control, touted as a strategy to protect residents from rising house prices stemming from demand far surpassing supply…
After a year, Berlin’s experiment with rent control is a failure
“I worry about Berlin,” says Rolf Buch, a born and bred Rhinelander.
How luxury apartment buildings help low-income renters
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.
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