the homeless rate. Taken together, our findings highlight a significant trade-off between tenant protections and rent …

, and specifically rent control, that were imposed in various jurisdictions in order to provide strengthened tenure … with the Constitution. The legal construction of rent control was adopted in pre-1994 South Africa, England and New York … exploitation by landlords. However, the justification for the persistent imposition of rent control in New York City is different …

Rent-control laws limiting the rents private landlords can charge tenants are controversial in the United States …. Critics have condemned rent control’s mandated wealth transfer from landlords to tenants, and economists have decried its … negative effects on rental supply and quality. With the advent of the sharing economy, rent-controlled tenants can rent out …

proposed to temper high rents is rent control. In its most basic form rent control is a government-imposed cap on rent and … rent control may seem like an easy way to control housing prices, the bulk of the evidence shows that it’s an inefficient … policy with several negative side effects. Rent control decreases the amount of rental housing, raises prices in the …

particular, we measure beliefs about and preferences for rent control -- a policy that is widely regarded as harmful by experts … effects of rent control on rent prices and housing supply and with information about the consensus among economists against … rent control. We find that people update their beliefs and that this leads to lower demand for rent control. Left …

conditions under which a rent-seeking behavior becomes unprofitable for the elite? The article associates them with excess income … establish an OAO. The conclusion made is that, in theory, LAO and OAO are completely reversible, although there are no …

Under tenancy rent control, rents are regulated within a tenancy but not between tenancies. This paper investigates the … effects of tenancy rent control on housing quality and maintenance. Since the discounted revenue received over a fixed …-duration tenancy depends only on the starting rent, intuitively the landlord has an incentive to spruce up the unit between tenancies …