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Originally published at Freedom Politics: In these days of economists constantly debating the right way to revive the economy, it seems like there is no way to find consensus among economists. Economists don’t spend much time debating the issues they agree on, and to them, rent control is about as dead an issue as the earth [...] March 19th, 2009 | Tags: Assar Lindbeck, housing, rent control | Category: housing, rent control | Comments |
 printable viewThe Orange County Register’s new site, Freedom Politics just posted an article I wrote for them on rent control. Here’s a snippet: In these days of economists constantly debating the right way to revive the economy, it seems like there is no way to find consensus among economists. Economists don’t spend much time debating the issues [...] March 3rd, 2009 | Tags: housing, housing bubble, rent control, Wendell Cox | Category: Economics, housing, rent control | Comments |
printable viewIn an act of pure legislative idiocy in the face of overwhelming consensus among economists against rent control, the New York State Assembly started the ball rolling to strengthen rent regulation. NY Times: The Democratic-led Assembly passed a broad package of legislation designed to restrain increases on rent-regulated apartments statewide. The legislation would essentially return [...] February 4th, 2009 | Tags: apartments, Economics, landlord, mobility, nyc, rent control, rent regulation | Category: Economics, housing, rent control | Comments |
printable viewNew York State’s Assembly is now in Democratic control. On many legislators wish list is to end the vacancy decontrol provisions that allow landlords to remove a unit from rent control if a tenant moves out and the unit rents for more than $2,000 per month. (for those of you not in New York, apartments [...] November 6th, 2008 | Tags: legislation, nyc, rent control, Steven Spinola, vacancy decontrol | Category: rent control | Comments |
printable viewIn Market Urbanism’s four part series on rent control, I avoided the topic of the morality of rent control, as I intended to address the economic issues and leave the morality to others. Thankfully, J. Brian Phillips of the Ad Hoc Committee for Property Rights is an expert on the subject. In his [...] October 16th, 2008 | Tags: J. Brian Phillips, morality, property rights, rent control | Category: rent control | Comments |
printable viewThanks to Bill Nelson for tipping me off to the article from The Villager (NYC): Retail rent control? A city councilmember planned to introduce a bill this week that will require small businesses and landlords to submit to arbitration in negotiating lease renewals if both parties can’t agree on a fair rent. The far-reaching measure, sought [...] October 15th, 2008 | Tags: nyc, rent control, retail, Robert Jackson, small business, Steve Null | Category: rent control | Comments |
printable viewIn case you didn’t catch it last weekend, Eileen Norcross wrote an excellent piece on rent control in New York. She touches on Charlie Rangel’s four rent control apartments scandal, some history of rent control in New York, the destructive results of rent control, vast inefficiencies caused by rent control, and moves to further [...] September 19th, 2008 | Tags: Charlie Rangel, Ed Glaeser, Eileen Norcross, housing, nyc, rent control, WSJ | Category: rent control | Comments |
printable viewDemocratic Congressman Charlie Rangel has announced that he will vacate the rent controlled apartment he has been using as a campaign office. This apartment is just one of four rent controlled apartments he is hoarding in the Lenox Terrace apartment building in Harlem. NY Times – Rangel to Relinquish Apartment Used as Office: Representative Charles B. [...] July 15th, 2008 | Tags: Charlie Rangel, Harlem, housing, Lennox Terrace, nyc, rent control, rent stabilization | Category: corruption, housing, rent control | Comments |
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