By Max Dubler Introduction In November 2024, California will vote on the Justice For Renters Act, a ballot measure that removes state-level restrictions on local governments’ power to enact rent control. This analysis of the measure is intended to help…
A Comprehensive Study of Rent Control
Few economic policies have been studied as extensively as rent control, which is an umbrella term for policies regulating when and how much a landlord may raise the rent for a home or apartment. In “Rent control effects through the…
Our Homes, Our Future: How Rent Control Can Build Stable, Healthy Communities
Published: 2019 | PolicyLink Abstract Amid the worst renter crisis in a generation, it is time for policymakers to respond to the call for rent control to protect tenants from skyrocketing rents and displacement. Leveraging this powerful yet underutilized tool…
People are simply unable to pay the rent
Published: 2018 | UCLA Luskin Center Abstract Drawing on our history, this paper proposes a range of options to ameliorate the economic vulnerability and anxiety of a growing number of our city’s rent-burdened residents. These options include extending the city’s…