The Housing Crisis and Rent Control
RENT CONTROL: The zombie idea that never dies.
Original article by Sergio Martinez As 2026 looms, it brings with it an anniversary worth noticing: eighty years since Milton Friedman and George Stigler published Roofs or Ceilings?, the very first pamphlet of the newly founded Foundation for Economic Education (FEE). The ...
Memo to Mamdani: To Improve Housing Affordability, Rein In Rent Control
Original article by Howard Husock Here’s a version of American free enterprise with which you may not be familiar. It’s one in which the owner of a business is free to choose between two options: operate at a loss or don’t operate ...
Never forget the great Henry Hazlitt
Original Article featured in the OC Register “When your money is taken by a thief, you get nothing in return. When your money is taken through taxes to support needless bureaucrats, precisely the same situation exists. We are lucky, indeed, ...
Cure homelessness with more housing, not more subsidies
Original article by Mark Miller This Thanksgiving, millions of Americans will gather around tables filled with food, but millions of others will have no table at all. Homelessness has surged in many major American cities, even in a nation overflowing with wealth ...
Who Rent Control Really Helps–Politicians, Not Renter
Original article by Jerry Agar Rent control is promoted as a fix for rising housing costs, but decades of data show it creates shortages, discourages new construction and hurts renters and small landlords. Sowell explains that for every good that one ...
Celebrity realtor Mauricio Umansky slams Los Angeles mayor over ‘tremendous mistake’ on rent control
Original article published on Fox Business The Agency founder argues policy provides short-term relief but doesn't solve housing crisis The Agency founder and CEO Mauricio Umansky joins 'Varney & Co.' to warn that California’s rent control and wealth taxes are ...
The Hill: California lawmakers haven’t learned their lesson on rent control
Original article by Ethan Blevins. Economist Thomas Sowell once quipped, “The first lesson of economics is scarcity” and “the first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.” With California’s recent flirtation with statewide rent control, it ...
Wealthy, Older Tenants in Manhattan Get Biggest Boost From Rent Regulations
Analysis hints at a policy conundrum lawmakers face as they consider changes to rules expiring June 15. In all of Manhattan, median regulated rents were 53% below median market rates in the borough. PHOTO: CAITLIN OCHS FOR THE WALL STREET JOURNAL Original ...
How Rent Control Actually Hurts Both Tenants and Landlords
Original article by Walter E. Block. Demand curves slope in a downward direction. This means that the higher the price, the less of an item, or good, or service, will be sought. The more road blocks, hurdles, thumbtacks placed in ...
America’s Most Controversial Rent Control Law Is Getting a Hasty Makeover
A collapse in new development activity followed St. Paul voters' approval of a strict, vaguely written rent control ordinance. City and state officials are scrambling over how best to fix the new law. Original article by Christian Britschigi. As a ...
The High Cost of Rent Control
That rent control is an ineffective and often counterproductive housing policy is no longer open to serious question. The profound economic and social consequences of government intervention in the nation's housing marketshave been documented in study after study, over the ...
OpEd: Rent Control Has Poor Implications
Original article by Lanny Ebenstein as seen in the Los Angeles Business Journal. The California state initiative which will appear on this November’s ballot that would prohibit state limitations on local rent control measures is poised like a dagger at ...
Introduction to Rent Control: Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship
Original content by by Dr. Stephen Hickman ...
The True Impacts of Rent Control and How Rent Control Works
Original report by John Stossel ...
How to Shrink Housing in Los Angeles
Original article by the Editorial Board of the Wall Street Journal. The economic law of supply and demand is simple enough, but Los Angeles is defying it again by tightening its rent control law in the name of housing affordability ...
