Rent control proponents like to argue that the policy will make housing more affordable. Now they're claiming it will also make it more accessible to people with disabilities. That's the thrust of a ...

The Biden-Harris administration’s nationwide rent-cap proposal to limit annual rent increases to 5 percent for large landlords regardless of their expenses or inflation will exacerbate the shortage of ...

New York state is the prime example of the problems with rent control laws because the laws have been on the books for eighty years and the housing shortage only gets worse each year, writes ...

WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The following is an analysis authored by Caitlin Sugrue Walter, Ph.D.: A new survey of 45 economists from elite institutions found near universal agreement that national ...

GBH’s Morning Edition host Mark Herz spoke with MIT economics professor Jonathan Gruber about the measure on the November ballot in Massachusetts.

Across the world, cities have struggled to figure out how to provide more affordable housing to people in need. In Copenhagen, Denmark, so-called social housing accounts for 20% of the region’s ...