About a dozen cities in Southern California have some form of local rent control. List contains Los Angeles, Inglewood and Santa Ana. But a 1995 law limits the type of rent control that cities in California can impose. Proposition 33 aims to repeal that law and allow cities to implement stricter forms of rent control. […]
Patti Pokorchak, a longtime resident of 230 Lake Prom., says her “idyllic” community is at risk of being destroyed and the largest eviction in Canadian history – affecting more than 1,000 tenants in 548 housing units. �� : Aloysius Wong/The Green Line. A plan to demolish more than 500 rental apartments has sparked anger among […]
A look at the latest data from the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) shows an increase of $359 in the average cost of “fair market rent” in Connecticut since the end of 2022, a 23.68% increase from $1,514 to $1,873. That’s according to RentData.org, which pulls data from HUD and reports Fair Market […]
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico City lawmakers on Thursday passed the most ambitious rent control law since the 1940s, limiting rent increases to the previous year’s inflation rate. In the vast city of nine million, rents were essentially frozen in the 1940s, and for older buildings they remained so for decades. In the 1990s, these […]
This fall, California voters will be asked to expand rent control with a statewide ballot measure similar to those they wisely rejected in 2018 and 2020. The economic principles of supply and demand are the same today as they were six years ago. “Rents in California are high because the state does not have enough […]
PORTLAND (WGME) — A $16,500 settlement has been reached in a Portland rent control violation case, and for the first time since the ordinance went into effect, the tenant will receive substantial compensation. However, the city did not impose any fines; it was a private agreement between landlord and tenant. Portland renter Bradley Davis reported […]
(Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images) Getty Images On Friday, Vice President Kamala Harris introduced a new proposal that would give federal agencies and state attorneys general new powers to impose fees on food suppliers and grocers who allegedly engage in “price gouging.” While this is considered the first policy proposal from Harris’ campaign and has […]
A study A study released in January by Harvard University’s Joint Center for Housing Studies found that half of all American renters are “cost-burdened,” meaning they have to spend at least 30 percent of their income on rent. A smaller number of renters, about one in seven, pay at least 50 percent of their income […]
OLD ORCHARD BEACH (WGME) – Voters in Old Orchard Beach may soon decide whether or not to pass some form of rent control. A citizens’ initiative of people from two mobile home parks has now collected enough signatures to possibly make further progress. “We have to protect ourselves,” said Val Philbrick, a resident of Old […]
OLD ORCHARD BEACH (WGME) – Voters in Old Orchard Beach may soon decide whether or not to pass some form of rent control. A citizens’ initiative of people from two mobile home parks has now collected enough signatures to possibly make further progress. “We have to protect ourselves,” said Val Philbrick, a resident of Old […]
