Rent control reliably offers short-term protection for sitting tenants, curbing their need to move away in the face of price pressures and keeping rents lower in covered properties. But landlords ...

As statewide rent control remains one of the top issues at the ballot box this election season, a new study is warning Massachusetts homeowners of potentially “significant” property tax increases if ...

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The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled Tuesday that a rent control ballot question cannot appear on this November's ...

Apartment buildings along Broadway. Nearly a million apartments in New York City are rent-stabilized and another 22,000 are under more stringent rent control. At this moment in New York City, nearly a ...

Editor’s note: This is the seventh installment in a series examining the roots of America’s housing crisis. To read the earlier pieces, visit the roots of today’s housing crisis. In the 1960s, the ...

Emmanuel Hovey Kporsu cautioned landlords against breaking into abandoned properties, but to follow lawful procedures He explained the “abscondant process,” which required landlords to report cases ...