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• Why are you running for the Rent Control Board and what would you like to accomplish if elected? To promote better policy. Over the last four years as your Rent Control Board commissioner I have ...

Rent control negatively impacts housing affordability long-term, increases gentrification, and creates negative externalities. A majority of economists agree that rent control reduces the quality and ...

A proposal to bring rent control back to Massachusetts for the first time since it was banned in 1994 has overcome its first obstacle. On Sept. 3, Attorney General Andrea Campbell determined that 44 ...

Editor’s note: This is the seventh installment in a series examining the roots of America’s housing crisis. To read the earlier pieces, visit the roots of today’s housing crisis. In the 1960s, the ...

The rent is too damn high. But rent control is not the solution. The idea is back in the spotlight in the Bay State, thanks to advocacy group Homes for All Massachusetts proposing a ballot question ...

The Washington Post editorial board took a hard-line stance against rent control policies, arguing that "capping prices is a textbook policy failure" that ultimately leaves renters "worse off" than ...

The Legislature and Healey partnered in 2024 to pass a major new housing production law, an initiative that didn’t include rent-control proposals. The governor’s capital investment plan for fiscal ...

Few policies disgust academic economists quite like rent control. In the 1970s, the Swedish economist Assar Lindbeck famously described it as the “most efficient technique presently known to destroy a ...