Author: Anthony DownsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Rent Control
Author: William Dennis KeatingPublisher: Routledge
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Rent control, the governmental regulation of the level of payment and tenure rights for rental housing, occupies a small but unique niche within the broad domain of public regulation of markets. The price of housing cannot be regulated by establishing a single price for a given level of quality, as other commodities such as electricity and sugar have been regulated at various times. Rent regulation requires that a price level be established for each individual housing unit, which in turn implies a level of complexity in structure and oversight that is unequaled. Housing provides a sense of security, defines our financial and emotional well-being, and influences our self-definition. Not surprisingly, attempts to regulate its price arouse intense controversy. Residential rent control is praised as a guarantor of affordable housing, excoriated as an indefensible distortion of the market, and both admired and feared as an attempt to transform the very meaning of housing access and ownership. This book provides a thorough assessment of the evolution of rent regulation in North American cities. Contributors sketch rent control's origins, legal status, economic impacts, political dynamics, and social meaning. Case studies of rent regulation in specific North American cities from New York and Washington, DC, to Berkeley and Toronto are also presented. This is an important primer for students, advocates, and practitioners of housing policy and provides essential insights on the intersection of government and markets.
Residential Rent Controls
Author: Anthony DownsThe Great Rent Wars
Author: Robert M. FogelsonPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300205589
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 523
Book Description
Written by one of the country's foremost urban historians, "The Great Rent Wars" tells the fascinating but little-known story of the battles between landlords and tenants in the nation's largest city from 1917 through 1929. These conflicts were triggered by the post-war housing shortage, which prompted landlords to raise rents, drove tenants to go on rent strikes, and spurred the state legislature, a conservative body dominated by upstate Republicans, to impose rent control in New York, a radical and unprecedented step that transformed landlord-tenant relations. "The Great Rent Wars" traces the tumultuous history of rent control in New York from its inception to its expiration as it unfolded in New York, Albany, and Washington, D.C. At the heart of this story are such memorable figures as Al Smith, Fiorello H. La Guardia, and Oliver Wendell Holmes, as well as a host of tenants, landlords, judges, and politicians who have long been forgotten. Fogelson also explores the heated debates over landlord-tenant law, housing policy, and other issues that are as controversial today as they were a century ago.
Rent Control, Myths & Realities
Author: Milton FriedmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
Rent Control in California
Author: William Dennis KeatingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Rent control
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Questions and Answers on Federal Rent Control
Author: Price Administration OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
Rent Control in North America and Four European Countries
Author: William SmithPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000678911
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Rent control, the governmental regulation of the level of payment and tenure rights for rental housing, occupies a small but unique niche within the broad domain of public regulation of markets. The price of housing cannot be regulated by establishing a single price for a given level of quality, as other commodities such as electricity and sugar have been regulated at various times. Rent regulation requires that a price level be established for each individual housing unit, which in turn implies a level of complexity in structure and oversight that is unequaled.Housing provides a sense of security, defines our financial and emotional well-being, and influences our self-definition. Not surprisingly, attempts to regulate its price arouse intense controversy. Residential rent control is praised as a guarantor of affordable housing, excoriated as an indefensible distortion of the market, and both admired and feared as an attempt to transform the very meaning of housing access and ownership.This book provides a thorough assessment of the evolution of rent regulation in North American cities. Contributors sketch rent control's origins, legal status, economic impacts, political dynamics, and social meaning. Case studies of rent regulation in specific North American cities from New York and Washington, DC, to Berkeley and Toronto are also presented. This is an important primer for students, advocates, and practitioners of housing policy and provides essential insights on the intersection of government and markets.
A Reevaluation of Residential Rent Controls
Author: Anthony DownsQuestion and Answers on Federal Rent Control
Author: United States. Price Administration OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 18
Book Description
Residential Real Estate Under Rent Control
Author: United States. Office of Price Administration. Rent Department. Program and Analysis BranchPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Rent control
Languages : en
Pages : 14
Book Description