From Maine to New York to Illinois to California, and many places in-between, a national rent-control movement is rising up — and Big Real Estate is running scared. That’s as ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. BOSTON (SHNS) – The months ahead could feature court battles, a hefty signature-gathering effort and a bruising campaign to sway ...

Supporters say it protects tenants. Critics warn it could backfire. With state leaders split, we break down why rent control is so controversial and what voters should know on GBH's All Things ...

“Why do bad ideas return — even those that have been roundly rejected?” That’s the question a friend asked me when he heard about an effort to bring rent control back in Massachusetts. In 1994, ...

A Holyoke event featuring housing leaders and tenant organizers is offering an early look at the arguments for and against a ...

Few policies disgust academic economists quite like rent control. In the 1970s, the Swedish economist Assar Lindbeck famously described it as the “most efficient technique presently known to destroy a ...

The Legislature and Healey partnered in 2024 to pass a major new housing production law, an initiative that didn’t include rent-control proposals. The governor’s capital investment plan for fiscal ...

BOSTON (SHNS) – The months ahead could feature court battles, a hefty signature-gathering effort and a bruising campaign to sway voters. And with all of that still on the horizon, supporters and ...