Urban areas confront a chronic shortage of housing, especially in the low-rent segment. This precarious situation is … demand, or pandemics cutting incomes. In response, the authorities implement rent control that slows rent increases or even … freezes rents. Rent control is ubiquitous, widely used at a large scale since World War I. However, its roots lie in a far …

Rent control is a highly debated social policy that has been omnipresent since World War I. Since the 2010s, it is … solution, directing their attention to controling housing rents and other restrictive policies. Is rent control useful or does … it create more damage than utility? To answer this question, we need to identify the effects of rent control. This study …

Russian Empire, for the first time in its history saw the introduction of rent controls and protection of tenants from …

Rising rents in German cities have led to an intense debate about the need for tighter rent controls in housing markets … makers, the rental brake has, at best, no impact in the short run. At worst, it even accelerates rent increases both in …

Rent control is one of the few policy issues on which there is a general agreement among economists. Economic theory … predicts, and few economists have tried to dispute, that imposing rent controls on a housing market is likely to lead to rental … housing shortages and general deterioration of quality. Even on income distribution grounds, rent control receives poor …