The Housing Crisis and Rent Control
Proposal Could Lower Manufactured Home Costs, Expand Housing Supply
Original Article by Dennis Su and Rachel Siegel Proposal Could Lower Manufactured Home Costs, Expand Housing Supply A proposed federal rule change included in the bipartisan Road to Housing Act could cut the cost of manufactured homes by as much ...
The Role of Manufactured Housing in Addressing the US Housing Crisis
Original article by Ben Nelms After years of elevated real estate prices, mortgage rates, and rents, the housing affordability crisis in the U.S. is more apparent than ever. Policy makers, economic experts, and everyday households continue to search for solutions ...
6 Ways Rent Control Hurts Californians
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 ...
A PLF Series on America’s Housing Srisis, Syndicated by Southern California News Group
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 ...
Rent Control vs. Rent Stabilization: A New Name for a Failed Concept
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 ...
What Does Economic Evidence Tell Us About the Effects of Rent Control?
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, ...
An Analysis of Rent Control Ordinances in California
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 ...
Rent Control and Housing Investment
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 ...
