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| | Rent control - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Opponents of rent control claim that rent control can create housing shortages, results in an overall decrease in the quality of housing stock in a city, and that its benefits accrue disproportionately to the wealthy and well-connected. | | | Rent Control refers to laws or ordinances that set price controls on residential housing. | | | Reasons given for these laws include residents owning their homes (and renting the land), the high cost of moving "mobile" homes and the loss of home value when they are moved. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent_control
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| | History of Rent Regulation |
| | Rent increases under the MBR program are capped at 7.5% a year and are applied until the MBR is reached. | | | Rent Control and Rent Stabilization 1962-1984 While the gradual decontrol trend continued throughout much of the 1960's, significant administrative change occurred at the beginning of the decade. | | | Rents in most counties in the State were placed under Federal regulation. |
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http://www.tenant.net/Oversight/50yrRentReg/history.html
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| | TCS Daily - Out of Control |
| | Rent control fails to actually assist those groups -- the poor and the elderly -- it was ostensibly designed to help, since the absence of any form of means testing and a general fear of lower-income tenants encourages landlords to rent their controlled units to people with higher incomes and more secure lifestyles. | | | Controlled properties generate less income and must therefore be taxed at a lower rate than they would have had the buildings been rented at market rates. | | | Related to the decline in the market value of buildings put under rent control is the trend of owners to defer maintenance and repairs, since in the face of controlled rents an adequate return on investment is difficult to realize. |
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http://www.techcentralstation.com/060704E.html
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| | NYS DHCR - Rent Administration - About Office of Rent Administration - Operations and Services |
| | Rents charged in controlled apartments are set and adjusted on the basis of registrations filed by owners when Federal rent control was imposed in 1943. | | | Rent control is the older of the two systems of rent regulation. | | | Rent regulation is intended to protect tenants in privately-owned buildings from illegal rent increases and allow owners to maintain their buildings and realize a reasonable profit. |
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http://www.dhcr.state.ny.us/ora/progs/oraprogs.htm
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| | How Rent Control Drives Out Affordable Housing |
| | Rent control was lifted immediately in the three cities, but a two-year extension was allowed for tenants qualifying for the federal definition of "lowincome"--less than 60 percent of the median for the region or 80 percent for the elderly and handicapped. | | | Rent increases for non-regulated housing could push the median for each city slightly higher but would be unlikely to affect the general shape of each graph. | | | Rent control has been in force in a number of major American cities for many decades. |
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http://www.tenant.net/Alerts/Guide/papers/tucker/tucker.html
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| | Civic Report 36 Rent Control and Housing Investment: Evidence from Deregulation in Cambridge, Massachusetts |
| | Rent control was first legalized in 1970, when the Commonwealth of Massachusetts permitted cities and towns with populations over 50,000 to impose rent controls. | | | Traditional economic analysis suggests that when price controls (rent regulation) are imposed on housing stock, housing quality declines over time because landlords are unable to recoup their investment and routine maintenance costs. | | | Thus, we are able to measure rent decontrol’s effect on housing investment only if we are also able to measure—and control for—investment that would have occurred anyway because of general market conditions. |
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http://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/cr_36.htm
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| | New York Rent Laws |
| | Established in 1969, the RSL is a modification and successor regulatory scheme to Rent Control. | | | Rent Increases for Rent Stabilized apartment units are provided by the annual NYC Rent Guidelines Board (RGB) Orders. | | | Rent Regulation "Reform" Act of 1993 amending various rent laws |
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http://www.tenant.net/Rent_Laws
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| | Massachusetts Rent Control |
| | One pro-rent control councilor voted against it and one voted "present;" three pro-rent control and three anti-rent control councilors voted for it; and one member, William Walsh, the staunchest anti-rent control councilor, was not there. | | | Rent control supporters would then have to start over with a new legislature and a hostile governor. | | | Easing various provisions would have only encouraged SPOA to push for more until the goal was achieved: a free market economy in Cambridge's rent controlled housing – the same system that laid the groundwork in the late '60s for tenant organizing that led to rent control. |
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http://www.nhi.org/online/issues/80/massrent.html
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| | City Journal Winter 1997 Rent Control’s Last Gasp by Peter D. Salins |
| | Rent controls also interfere with the dynamics of the housing market in more subtle ways. | | | Rent controls cause scarcity and deterioration in the housing stock? | | | Landlords would be able to get the market-level rents that deregulation would permit, he says, only if they thoroughly modernized their properties so as to match housing standards in the suburbs and other cities. |
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http://www.city-journal.org/html/7_1_rent_controls.html
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| | Reason magazine -- April 1994 |
| | Rents in Santa Monica are estimated to be 30 percent to 50 percent below market value. | | | Santa Monica implemented rent control in 1979, after Campaign for Economic Democracy, a group led by Tom Hayden and partly financed by Jane Fonda, won control of city hall and created a governing body responsible for setting maximum annual rent increases. | | | The board OK'd a "pass-through" plan that would allow landlords to raise rents to cover repair costs on a dollar-for-dollar basis, amortizing the increases over a number of years. |
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http://www.reason.com/9404/col.gillespie.shtml
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| | Rent Controls in Ontario Canada - Rent Control |
| | Rent Controls are meant to bring stability of prices to a market, for something that is both a societal and persona necessity. | | | By Mid-75, most city mayor's were in support of rent control, but the Bill Davis, Progressive Conservative Ontario government was adamant it would never support controls and instead wanted to divert the problems to the cities, whom they were proposing they would give power to, to create municipal rent review boards. | | | Rent Controls must have an annual guideline rent increase. |
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http://www.ontariotenants.ca/rent-controls.phtml
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| | Rent Control-San Francisco |
| | Rent control is administered by the SF Rent Board, 25 Van Ness Ave. | | | Section 4.11 of the Rent Control Rules and Regulations specify the method of calculation of utility increases. | | | The landlord must present a comparison of the utility costs for the preceding two calendar years and can pass through the difference between year one and two. |
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http://www.sftu.org/rentcontrol.html
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| | Rent Control, by Walter Block: The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics: Library of Economics and Liberty |
| | Absent controls on prices, if the amount of a commodity or service demanded is larger than the amount supplied, prices rise to eliminate the shortage (by both bringing forth new supply and by reducing the amount demanded). | | | Economists have shown that rent control diverts new investment, which would otherwise have gone to rental housing, toward other, greener pastures—greener in terms of consumer need. | | | Rent control has destroyed entire sections of sound housing in New York's South Bronx. |
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http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/RentControl.html
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| | NYS DHCR - Rent Administration |
| | The legislature has directed that the increases continue to be a part of the rent to provide an incentive for owners to improve New York State's housing stock. | | | An owner must file an Owner's Application For Rent Increase Based On Major Capital Improvements (MCI) (form RA-79) with DHCR to increase the rent for a Major Capital Improvement which benefits the entire building. | | | The security deposit must be kept by the owner in an interest bearing account in a NYS bank. |
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http://www.dhcr.state.ny.us/ora/ora.htm
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| | NMHC - National Multi Housing Council |
| | Rent Control and Housing Investment: Evidence from Deregulation in Cambridge, Massachusetts | | | Rent Regulations’ Pricing Effect in the Uncontrolled Sector | | | Research examining the impact of rent control on the level of housing maintenance performed and overall housing deterioration.(May 1999) |
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http://www.nmhc.org/Content/BrowseIssues.cfm?IssueID=66
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| | SPOA Home Page |
| | Even with the prospect of an 8-to-5 vote against the proposal, one of those eight votes is wobbly, and all the councilors need to hear from their constituents to reinforce their opposition to or their doubts about rent control. | | | SPOA ran an intensive phone-calling campaign for six weeks prior to the election, describing in recorded messages how rent control would affect the various classes of owners and informing voters of the candidate positions on rent control. | | | On November 4, 2003, Cambridge citizens voted 61% to 39% against a ballot question that aimed to reinstate rent control locally, a landslide defeat in this famously liberal city. |
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http://www.spoa.com
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| | EPC to tell council to consider rent control (February 16, 2001) |
| | Council member Rosemary Stasek said that while she is "open to discuss anything," she has serious reservations about rent control and the amount of community support a rent control measure would actually have. | | | Council member Sally Lieber said rent control "always comes up because of the high percentage of rental housing in Mountain View." | | | Pear said he believes the free market will rectify the problem, either through rising annual incomes or stabilized rents. |
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http://www.mv-voice.com/morgue/2001/2001_02_16.epc16000.html
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| | North Bergen Rent Control |
| | Rent Leveling Ordinance # 467-93 can be purchased in the Clerk's Office. | | | Rent Leveling Board — 7 regular members — 2 alternates. | | | Rent Security — Landlord has 30 days to return security deposit after tenant moves. |
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http://www.northbergen.org/rentcontrol.php3
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| | Berkeley Rent Stabilization Board: Other Rent Control Jurisdictions |
| | Rent Review and Information--Links to City of Hayward, City Attorney, Services, Rent Review website. | | | Rent Board Text-Only Sidebar / Rent Board Home / Meetings and Events | | | Rent Mediation Program and Rental Increase Dispute Resolution Ordinance information |
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http://www.ci.berkeley.ca.us/rent/other/other.html
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| | NathanNewman.org |
| | As I said, I'm for rent control-- I just think there are real political costs to it when unmoored from a broader coalition for affordable housing. | | | Posted by: Kerim Friedman at September 26, 2003 12:26 AM If the Federal government still funded low-income housing -- as they did before the Regan administration -- then the housing stock would be larger, and more of it available to lower-income people. | | | More than 500,000 renter households (one-quarter of all renters) continue to pay more than 50% of their income for rent. |
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http://www.nathannewman.org/log/archives/001214.shtml
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| | The Unofficial Paul Krugman Web Page |
| | The analysis of rent control is among the best-understood issues in all of economics, and -- among economists, anyway -- one of the least controversial. | | | After all, the sort of landlord behavior described in the article -- demanding that prospective tenants supply résumés and credit reports, that they dress nicely and act enthusiastic -- doesn't happen in uncontrolled housing markets. | | | None of this says that ending rent control is an easy decision. |
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http://www.pkarchive.org/column/6700.html
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| | LA Rent Control Made Simple |
| | Rent Stabilization Board makes its own Regulations to clarify the rent control law, and help in applying it. | | | The landlord must pay for all of the temporary relocation costs of the tenant, including hotel expenses, food, day care, moving costs, and phone transfers. | | | Rent control, or rent stabilization, is a collection of laws that restrict the rents a landlord can charge and limits the reasons for eviction. |
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http://www.caltenantlaw.com/LARSO.htm
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| | National Review: Rent control-unconstitutional? - column |
| | But surely to limit the profit that can be made in one form of enterprise is to exercise a kind of discriminatory approach toward profit which the rule of law forbids. | | | The dilapidation of buildings landlords can't afford to invest money in modernizing. | | | IT IS HARD to think of any economic nostrum more comprehensively discredited than rent control, though wage and price controls are a close second. |
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http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1282/is_v38/ai_4113464
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| | Rent Control By Jacob Weisberg and Malcolm Gladwell |
| | Rent Control By Jacob Weisberg and Malcolm Gladwell | | | In a free market, your sorry hovel would cost more. | | | Having claimed, preposterously, that rent control actually encourages the creation of new housing, you now assert that we are both wrong--that housing construction has nothing to do with rent control one way or the other and that the only issue is zoning. |
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http://www.slate.com/?id=3651
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| | NYC Rent Guidelines Board |
| | With the most recent information on economic trends, owner revenues and costs, multifamily mortgages, tenant income and affordability, and housing supply changes, Housing NYC: Rents, Markets and Trends 2005 is an extensive compilation of research on the New York City rental market today. | | | In addition, the book contains the 2005-06 apartment, loft and hotel guidelines adopted by the Board, comprehensive data from the most recent NYC Housing and Vacancy Survey, a glossary of rent regulation and more. | | | 2005 Edition of Housing NYC: Rents, Markets and Trends Available at CityStore |
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http://www.housingnyc.com
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| | Rent Control - City of Santa Monica |
| | Santa Monica Rent Control Board Closed Session Agenda | | | ** Rent Control Board meetings are aired live ** | | | Notice of Change in Terms of Tenancy 2005-2006 |
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http://www.santa-monica.org/rentcontrol
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| | MAR Database - City of Santa Monica |
| | Rents in this program were last updated on Sunday Jan 22, 2006. | | | The data may not be up-to-date due to the lag time between a board decision or the filing of information regarding a vacancy and updating of the electronic records. | | | Please contact the Rent Control Agency to ask about a particular property's exemption status. |
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http://pen2.ci.santa-monica.ca.us/mar
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| | Rent Control |
| | Almost all economists agree that rent control “destroys a city worse than bombing”. | | | The Massachusetts experience shows rent control in action - and what happened after it was repealed. | | | Read about our historic defeat of rent control in Cambridge. |
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http://www.spoa.com/pages/rent-control.html
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| | San Francisco Rent Board |
| | Enter a keyword to search the Rent Board web site: | | | The San Francisco Residential Rent Stabilization and Arbitration Board implements the San Francisco Rent Ordinance. |
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http://www.sfgov.org/site/rentboard_index.asp
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| | rent control. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 |
| | It was later turned over to the control of individual states and municipalities and has since ended in most locations. | | | in economics and law, government regulation of rent to prevent unreasonable or excessive increases. | | | In the United States, the federal government imposed rent control (and other price controls) during World War II, and continued it in several cities after the war because of housing shortages. |
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http://www.bartleby.com/65/e-/E-rentcontr.html
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| | San Francisco Tenants Union: Tenants and Renters Rights |
| | Mirkarimi's legislation prohibits a landlord from taking away such services unless the landlord has a just cause under the rent ordinance. | | | These units are subject to re-rental restrictions; if you or someone you know is renting one, you may be paying too much rent. | | | The legislation must sit for 30 days before any action is taken on it, under Board of Supervisors rules. |
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http://www.sftu.org
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| | Tenant Net - New York City tenants |
| | With over six years of landlord control of the state rent regulatory agency, the Division of Housing and Community Renewal, tenants must watch their step as never before. | | | 26,000 tenants were evicted last year unable to pay skyrocketing rents. | | | Abbie Hoffman's classic Steal This Book – so our yuppy friends paying "market rents" can remember their roots when they were yippies. |
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http://www.tenant.net
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| | Rent Control (2002) |
| | "Rent Control" is only a family movie insomuch as it features Melissa Joan Hart- having not developed one jot as an actor since her kid-stardom- and is wretched in that particular way that afflicts most children's films: simplistic, poorly shot, with terrible jokes and lines of duologue- really, whole scenes- that make no sense. | | | Discuss this movie with other users on IMDb message board for Rent Control (2002) | | | I have seen this movie and would like to comment on it |
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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0293555
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| | Rent Control |
| | East Palo Alto is currently the only city in San Mateo County with any rent control or rent stabilization ordinances. | | | FAQ #7: Is there any rent control in my city? | | | East Palo Alto Rent Stabilization Program - For residents of East Palo Alto |
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http://www.landlordtenantinfo.org/questions/q7.html
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