Editor’s Note: Below are excerpts from a column series on housing written by Jim Burling, vice president at Pacific Legal Foundation, and published across Southern California News Group outlets. Nowhere to Live? No Hiding from Bad Government Policies In the ...

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Original article by Jon Fleischman. Rent control promises affordability but delivers scarcity, higher costs, and community decline, deepening California’s housing crisis. 🕒 5-minute read The Housing Trap California families are living through a housing nightmare. We face a shortage of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Original article by Chris Bruen as seen in the National Multifamily Housing Council. Nearly all economists agree that rent control is a failed policy. In a 1990 survey of economists of the American Economic Association, fully 93 percent agreed that ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Original article by Rebecca Diamond. 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. Under pressure to fight rising rents, state lawmakers in Illinois, Oregon, ...

Executive Summary It wasn’t long ago that state policymakers were worried about falling home prices and the impact the declines were having on the California economy. Today those worries have turned 180 degrees and policymakers are focused on opposite concerns—the rising costs ...

Evidence from Deregulation in Cambridge, Massachusetts Executive Summary Traditional economic analysis suggests that when price controls (rent regulation) are imposed on housing stock, housing quality declines over time because landlords are unable to recoup their investment and routine maintenance costs ...