But the work of Greenwich’s Fair Rent Commission is less familiar, and perhaps misunderstood. The commission has nothing to do with “rent control.” They don’t cap or freeze rents. The commission is a way for tenants to challenge excessive rents.
A satirical campaign ad is making the rounds on social media again, but the joke isn’t landing quite the way its creators intended. Meant to ridicule the idea that luxury housing could help ordinary renters, it instead exposes the flaw…
Four Hernando County schools will have new principals leading them when the 2015-16 school year begins. Michael Maine has been named the new principal at Spring Hill Elementary School. Jamie Young has been named the new principal at J.D. Floyd K-8. Janet E. Cerro…
Policy Pro: Council set to expand rent freeze programs — with landlords’ support The Real Deal
One candidate is proposing policies intended to make everyday life more affordable and healthcare more accessible. The other has a congressional voting record that voters can examine for themselves. As voters consider their choices for Congress this November, two issues…
U.S. Rep. Brad Finstad has heard the critique from southern Minnesotans constantly. “What’s going on in our state and our politics … this doesn’t feel like our way of life,” the Republican said, referencing the political hotbed Minnesota has become. That dynamic…
Deanna Muz, a retired nurse living in Saginaw, Mich., has typically voted Republican. But with “the way our economy is and all the BS going on,” she says, “I’m in that ‘I’m not sure’ phase.” Chief among Muz’s economic concerns…
Urban Matters: Alex, you recently stepped down from the New York City Rent Guidelines Board (RGB), after serving on it for six years. What advice do you have for the board’s new members, who, as you did, will be voting…
A pro-business, free-market, limited-government policy organization is going door to door in St. Paul, urging the repeal of the city’s voter-approved rent control ordinance, testing the waters for potential anti-rent control mayoral and city council candidates and asking taxpayers to…
San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie speaks to members of the press after unveiling the renamed federal building in honor of the late Sen. Dianne Feinstein on June 29, 2026, in San Francisco. Lurie made it clear that the city also “must build…
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